Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan posted a family photo on her Facebook page and wrote:
"My beloved and only, my dear and precious country, my homeland, my Republic of Armenia
Happy holiday.
Dear people, I congratulate us that today we have the opportunity and advantage to live according to our identity, express ourselves, perceive the world in Armenian, national culture, colors, natural world, sitting and standing, national cuisine, and relate in our way.
I congratulate us for having the opportunity and advantage to decide that independence, freedom, free expression, democracy, dignity, social justice, and humanism are our happiness prerequisites and non-negotiable values .
I congratulate us on having the opportunity and advantage not to dream of statehood but to build it every day, consistently, without getting tired and grumbling.
I wish that care, honesty, realism, courage, and consistent work prevail in our love instead of pathos.
Prosperity to all our families, to our country.
Long live the Republic of Armenia!
with love
Yours Anahit Avanesyan."