Armenia to add another holiday - Navasard

ArmInfo. Armenia will add another holiday - Navasard. The National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia is discussing amendments to the Law "On Holidays and Memorial Days" at its June 17 session.

According to the author of the legislative initiative, NA MP Gegham  Nazaryan, the proposed amendments largely preserve existing holidays  and memorial days and organize them in a more appropriate order,  ensuring chronology and logic. The author also proposes adding  another holiday - Navasard - to the law, establishing it as a day of  national traditions, culture, and Armenian unity. It is proposed to  celebrate it on August 11. The author believes that this holiday will  not only contribute to the preservation and dissemination of national  cultural values but will also become an important day for Diaspora  Armenians to participate in festive events. However, this day will be  a working day.

Another proposal by the author is to designate certain holidays or  memorial days associated with national minorities as non-working  days. The MP also suggests establishing non-working days or finding  another solution for the main holidays of the Armenian Apostolic  Church - Christmas, Easter, Vardavar, the Dormition of the Blessed  Virgin Mary, and the days of commemoration of the departed.

Similar to Yerevan Day, it is proposed to establish regional holidays  that would promote domestic tourism.