ANCA-WR to honor Artsakh President with Freedom Award

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian National Committee of America Western Region (ANCA-WR) announced that it will be honoring Bako Sahakyan, President of the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic with its highest honor, the prestigious Freedom Award at its Annual Gala Banquet on Nov 2.

“We are deeply grateful for President Sahakyan’s ongoing commitment to forcefully defending Artsakh’s right to self-determination, while ensuring unprecedented redevelopment in the region and establishing policies that have in the past decade placed Artsakh on the international map as a peace-loving society founded on democratic principles. By honoring him, we are eager to provide our community the opportunity to publicly express their appreciation for his decades of leadership and service on issues so dear to all of us,” stated ANCA-WR Chair Nora Hovsepian.



Sahakyan was elected as the fourth president of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic on July 19, 2007 and was re-elected for a second term on July 19, 2012. President Sahakyan has been awarded many medals, namely, “Battle Cross” of 1st degree (NKR), “Peter the Great” of 1st degree, “For Service to Fatherland” of 1st degree and “Vazgen Sargsyan” medals (Republic of Armenia).



Past recipients of the ANCA Freedom Award include former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John M. Evans, United States Ambassador to the United Nations and Pulitzer Prize winning author Dr. Samantha Power, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, the late U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, former U.S. Senator Robert Dole, former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole, and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords Baroness Caroline Cox.