The ceremony of donating the scholarly and theological work of Sargis Shnorhali, ''Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles'', to the Matenadaran was held at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall ahead of the Independence Day of the Republic of Armenia.

The event was attended by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President of the Constitutional Court Arman Dilanyan, President of the Supreme Judicial Council Artur Atabekyan, Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia Anna Vardapetyan, Director of the Matenadaran Ara Khzmalyan, representatives of executive bodies, the scientific community, and ambassadors accredited to the Republic of Armenia.

On July 31 of this year, a decision was made at the Cabinet meeting of the Republic of Armenia to allocate about 93 million drams to the Matenadaran, with which the exceptional theological and scholarly work of the prominent medieval manuscript writer Sargis Shnorhali, ''Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles'' (13th-14th centuries), was acquired. As a result of months of negotiations by the Matenadaran leadership, it became possible to remove the manuscript from the auction and reduce the initial price. The manuscript's entry into the Matenadaran will be an exceptional event in all respects. One page of the manuscript was kept in the Matenadaran and was placed in its place in the manuscript with today's ceremony.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted that it is a great honor for him to be present at this ceremony today, noting that a very important manuscript will be placed in the Matenadaran named after Mesrop Mashtots. “This is the second such decision by the Government in recent years, of course, with the mediation of the Matenadaran and with the assurance that the manuscript really has a special significance. Understandably, when this sentence is heard, we cannot think for a long time, and our thoughts are about the fact that the Republic of Armenia should become the place of the most important monuments and manuscripts of our identity. We are guided by the ideology that our state is our identity,” the Prime Minister emphasized.

According to the Prime Minister, today's event is directly related to the implementation of that concept, because initially, during the period of the adoption of Christianity, before that, our state conditioned our identity, but then, due to circumstances known to everyone in our history, with the end of statehood, our identity has, in fact, spread throughout the world. "And now, when the state and statehood are at the core of our ideology, our state is once again finding the role of the core of our identity, and therefore, the most important monuments for our identity, such manuscripts, various samples should be housed in our state, because our state should be the epicenter of our identity. I am saying this, because of course, what happened here, being next to this manuscript is in itself a very moving and emotional moment, I am sure for all of you.

But I want to say that these decisions are not just emotional decisions, because they are conscious decisions, and we understand what these allocations from the state budget, which, by the way, were not planned in advance, are for,” the Prime Minister said.

Nikol Pashinyan reminded that the draft concept of the aesthetics of the Real Armenia was recently published and there have been many discussions since then. What is that, what does the aesthetics of the Real Armenia mean? The Prime Minister noted that the aesthetics of the Real Armenia means that the Republic of Armenia should be the epicenter and axis of our cultural identity, our aesthetic identity, and that is the policy that the Government is pursuing.

"It is true that the Government is thanked for all this, of course the Government makes the decisions, but, including for today, we should completely and unreservedly redirect that gratitude to the citizens working in the Republic of Armenia, creating results, paying taxes prescribed by law, because the words of gratitude that are addressed to the Government, I perceive as belonging to all those taxpayers," said Nikol Pashinyan, adding that the Government perceives itself simply as a representative of those people, who are the real recipients of gratitude. The Prime Minister emphasized that all words of gratitude should be addressed to the citizens working in the Republic of Armenia, creating results, paying taxes prescribed by law, because they are those who in reality stand behind today's event and, in fact, this is about practically, if not all, then at least the majority of people present in the hall.

“Starting with our esteemed musicians, who pay income tax from their salaries, and our other representatives, some as businessmen, some as employees, and without undue modesty, I truly, sincerely think that the real recipients of this gratitude are you, and I want to sincerely thank you for donating this manuscript to us, to you, to the Republic of Armenia, and for returning it to the Republic of Armenia,” Prime Minister Pashinyan concluded his speech.

A concert dedicated to the Independence Day of the Republic of Armenia was held next, performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia.