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December 11, 2009 STATEMENT
We, the young members of the Armenian political parties, condemn the recent belligerent rhetoric of the Azerbaijani leadership to initiate war. We believe that peace is among the most important values for the humanity, especially for our region. >> December 2, 2009 TURKEY, ARMENIA, AND THE TERRIBLE TRUTH By Raffi K. Hovannisian
Turkey has always had its share of decent folks. One close example is the righteous family who, during the great genocide and national dispossession of 1915, risked its own to save my grandmother Khengeni from certain death in the coastal town of Ordu. >> November 27, 2009 LET’S WAKE UP AND GET READY FOR DEFENSE AND RETALIATION Statement by Hayk Youth and Student Union of Heritage Party
The Azerbaijani leadership’s belligerent rhetoric and threats to resume the war have become more frequent recently. On the eve of the November 22 Munich meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents, Ilham Aliyev stated that in case the meeting fails again to produce progress in the Karabakh settlement this time, Azerbaijan will resort to settling the conflict by military means. >> October 12, 2009 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ARMENIAN NATION PROTOCOLS AND PRECONDITIONS By Raffi K. Hovannisian
The history of the Armenian people has been an ordeal of suffering, tragedy, and genocide. In this millennial series of misfortunes, however, never has the nation invited destruction upon itself. >> July 15, 2009 HERITAGE LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT Dear Mr. President: The Heritage Party is deeply concerned over the joint statement recently issued by the presidents of the three co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group. In fact, with this statement, the Madrid Principles were disclosed and their anti-Armenian essence were exposed. >> July 15, 2009 Heritage’s Message to the Armenians of Artsakh Dear compatriots: For many years, the true essence of the “Karabagh” problem was centered on Azerbaijan’s territorial ambitions toward Artsakh. >> June 3, 2009 Heritage’s Statement on the Karabagh Peace Talks The Heritage Party,
May 5, 2009 Heritage’s New Representative Attends PACE Session
Yerevan—Zaruhi Postanjian, the new member of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the Heritage Party’s MP, was in Strasbourg from April 27 to 30, where she participated in the spring session of PACE and also delivered remarks during several discussions. >> April 23, 2009 Statement of Heritage’s Executive Board On 24 April 2009, the progressive people of the world will join the Armenian nation in paying their respects, for the 94th time, to the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide and the resultant great dispossession of Armenian homeland, which the Turkish state had carried out at the turn of the 20th Century. >> April 21, 2009
Yerevan—Approximately seventy young members and supporters of the Heritage Party today held a public march in Yerevan. Despite the unsubstantiated impediments by the police force—as, in accordance with the initial arrangement, the number of the procession’s participants had not exceeded one hundred and, therefore, there were no legal grounds for informing Town Hall, due to the limited nature of the event—the event started from the park adjacent to the statue of the renowned painter Martiros Sarian and its final destination was the Embassy of the United States. >> March 23, 2009 Heritage’s Statement on the May 31 Elections for Yerevan’s Council of Elders The Heritage Party,
March 5, 2009 NOTHING PERSONAL: TURKEY’S TOP TEN By Raffi K. Hovannisian Yerevan—That an Armenian repatriate, American-born into a legacy of remembrance inherited from a line of survivors of genocide nearly a century ago, feels compelled to entitle his thoughts with a focus on Turkey—and not Armenia—reveals a larger problem, a gaping wound, and an imperative for closure long overdue on both sides of history’s tragic divide. >> March 5, 2009 Heritage Demands That the Authorities Take Immediate Measures to Take the Country Out of the Current Political and Economic Crisis The Heritage Party holds that the crisis of trust in the country has entered a new phase, and it has found reflection in the economy and the social condition of a large cross-section of the people. >>
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