RAFFI HOVHANNISIAN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF ZHARANGUTIUN PARTY

YEREVAN, MAY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. On May 30, the regular third congress of
the Zharangutiun (Heritage) national-liberal party opened. The congress
discussed and approved the new variant of the party’s regulations,
as well as elected the chairman of the Zharangutiun party. Raffi
Hovhannisian, former RA Foreign Minister, founder of the Armenian
Center for National and International Studies, was elected the party’s
chairman. Representatives of many opposition parties, including the
People’s Party of Armenia, the National Self-Determination Union,
Liberal-Progressive Party of Armenia, Union of Socialist Forces and
Intelligentsia of Armenia, made a greeting speech addressed to congress
participants. According to Rafael Ghazarian, Academician of RA National
Academy of Sciences, the Zharangutiun party will fill in the number of
sound political forces that will take the country out of the created
critical situation. To recap, the Zharangutiun party was founded in
late 2002, on the threshold of presidential elections of 2003.