The exclusive edition of the 90th anniversary of Lebanon-based “Aztag” daily has been published, Editor-in-chief of the newspaper Shahan Gantaharyan told “Armenpress”. The edition, comprised of over 450 pages, presents the history of “Aztag” daily, its past path. The edition includes the messages of the Presidents of Armenia, Artsakh Republic, Armenia’s Minister of Diaspora, Armenian clergies and other prominen tfigures.

“In the evening of March 8, the newspapers were brought out from the publishing house, the edition is quite impressive. There are interviews, messages, memoirs, analysis. We have presented interviews with the chief editors of the newspaper, we have presented the list of people who were directors, chief editors, or had other posts during these 90 years. The names are over 500”, he said.

The exclusive edition presents the readers the hidden part of the path passed by the newspaper. In particular, it presents the employees’ human relationships, the steps aimed at overcoming the problems of difficult, dangerous periods.

Shahan Gantaharyan said this exclusive edition will bring its contribution to writing the history of the Diaspora-Armenian media. “During these 90 years the key functions directed towards the maintenance of Armenian identity, the involvement of youth, reporting professional news on events of Lebanon and the Armenian world has been one of the major achievements of “Aztag” newspaper.

In other words it is a repository of great materials”, he said, adding that the digitization process of the entire archive of the 90th anniversary of the newspaper will be completed soon. 1500 copies of the edition were published, they will be distributed to media, scientific centers, to those who worked for the newspaper.