On June 7 of this year, Armenia’s Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan lifted a ban on the importation of food products from Turkey and Azerbaijan that had been decreed in 2009 by his predecessor, Gersim Alaverdyan.
Touting the slogan ‘Choose Life’, the festival seeks to disseminate the ideal of a healthy lifestyle through vegetarianism in addition to highlighting cruelty to animals.