RAFFI HOVHANNISIAN: OUR FIRST AND FOREMOST TASK IS TO ASSIST ARMENIA’S DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY

YEREVAN, MAY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. The Zharangutiun (Heritage) party by
its origin is a national, by ideology a liberal political force,
an apologist of a democratic system of governance, which considers
establishment of the Republic of Armenia as a democratic, legal and
developed state to be its first and foremost task. Raffi Hovhannisian,
the Heritage party’s Chairman, former RA Foreign Minister, declared
this at the party’s May 30 third congress. According to him, the
party’s most important tasks are recognition of human rights and
freedoms and provision of their protection, formation of a free and
efficient electoral system. Raffi Hovhannisian considered important the
modernization of the state machinery and increase in its efficiency,
release from shadow management, full formation of local self-governance
system and so on. In R.Hovhannisian’s opinion, first of all resolution
and will are necessary for the implementation of all this. “Our first
and foremost task is to assist development and prosperity in Armenia,”
the Zharangutiun party’s leader declared.