Hayots Ashkharh Daily, Armenia
Dec 6 2007
`NATIONAL RENAISSANCE ‘ ALSO UNITES WITH ARMENIAN DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL
PARTY
Yesterday `National Renaissance’ convened its second session. The
only issue of the agenda was merging with Armenian Liberal Party
through re-organization.
Albert Bazeyan openly underscored in his speech that during those
two years of activity the party faced the problem of `to be or not to
be’. `Like many parties registered in the Republic we were fighting
for our existence only. During our discussion to find a way out from
this situations, to my great surprise, many of our members, failed to
perceive the real situation.’
He said, all the facts proved that the party cannot exist as a
political structure and cannot even solve the problem of its
existence, ‘It is a fact that by objective reasons the party didn’t
have a permanent central office for the last one year and more. It is
also a fact that before the Parliamentary elections no one united
with us and we didn’t have any chance to run for the elections
separately.’
Then the speaker touched upon the absence of culture and
traditions in the political field, which hinder the formation of the
parties with strong ideological values.
According to A. Bazeyan their initiative of unification is a new
step in the investment of a political culture in Armenia and the
accomplishment of the political system. `For some people it is better
to be a leader of a small party then a simple member of a strong
political power. But we should understand that a party is not an end
in itself or a goal of life. A party is a means to elaborate
alternative programs that will provide the country’s progress, to
participate in the political processes, and to realize our own
programs.
In my view when we are guided by our narrow party-interests and by
continuing to act separately we won’t have this opportunity. That is
why we started a discussion with Armenian Democratic Liberal Party
and `Dashink’ union and came to an agreement to start the process of
merging the three parties.
In his welcome speech leader of Armenian Democratic Liberal Party
Harutyun Arakelyan confirmed he political necessity of the decision
regarding the merging of the three parties. `The parliamentary
elections displayed that we must come out with a united power if we
share the same ideas regarding the settlement of the most important
national issues. Why should we be rivals if the similarity of the
approaches is evident? Where is the logic?’
NAIRA KHACHATRYAN