PRESS RELEASE
The Heritage Party
Yerevan, Armenia
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September 21, 2006
THE HERITAGE PARTY’S INDEPENDENCE DAY GREETING: ON THE ROAD TO TRUTH
AND RIGHT
The fifteen-year anniversary of Armenia’s independence is a fitting
occasion to reassess the watershed significance of sovereign
statehood. This opens before our nation vast horizons to live and
create in freedom and without shackles, to make the Republic prosper,
and to build a bright future for the generations next in line.
Armenia’s independence has other implications and lessons as well. This
liberty was achieved after a long-lasting intermission in statehood,
and the sacrifice of thousands of patriots, thus further underscoring
its historic mission and modern meaning. Real sovereignty and
democracy, respect for human rights, and other universally accepted
values–which we certainly shall attain through our united and devoted
work–will turn Armenia into a cradle of civil freedoms and equal
protection, rule of law and due process, and a country liberated
from the parochial arbitrariness of ruling cliques and extralegal
permissiveness for the privileged.
The duty of building a new and strong Armenia has fallen to our
generation.
We must place its cornerstone with a firmness of will, a trueness
of conscience, and a nobility of commitment so that the preeminence
of right, the letter and spirit of legal and ethical benchmarks,
and the expectation and conduct of a dignified life may long endure.
Let us once again become the masters of our rich history and
civilizational heritage, adding our contemporary share to them and
faithfully passing them on to those yet to come. This is the paramount
order of the day.
On the occasion of this glorious anniversary for Armenia and the
entire Armenian nation, we extend our hearty best wishes to all
members and supporters of the Heritage Party and, more importantly,
to the children of Armenia the world over, whose might and mind, in
our deep conviction, will continue to open ever-new avenues toward
the Homeland of our dreams.
Raffi K. Hovannisian Founder
Vardan Khachatrian Chairman
September 21, 2006 Yerevan