July 25, 2008

Heritage Board’s New Chairperson Holds First Press Briefing

Yerevan—Today Anahit Bakhshian, the newly elected chairwoman of the Heritage Party’s executive board, conducted a news briefing at Heritage headquarters. Bakhshian was accompanied by Heritage MP Stepan Safarian and spokesman Hovsep Khurshudian.

During the press briefing, Anahit Bakhshian firstly took note of her and the Heritage Party’s courses of action to be taken following her recent election as chairperson and subsequently made public the board’s decisions, which were reached during its session held on July 24, with respect to three matters:

1. In response to the petition made on June 19 by chairman Samvel Nikoyan of the National Assembly’s ad hoc committee—which is set up to examine the events that took place in Yerevan on March 1 and 2 as well as the causes behind these events—and to reach a final decision on Heritage’s involvement in the aforesaid committee, the party’s board decided to forward a set of inquiries to Nikoyan on issues that need clarification.

2. In the local government elections, which will be held in Yerevan’s Arabkir community in September, the board decided to nominate and support Heritage board member Zoya Tadevosian’s candidacy as prefect of this community.

3. The Heritage board examined the invitation for its membership in the Armenian National Congress (ANC) and decided to “discuss with the ANC all possible forms of cooperation and partnership solely after receiving the documents specifying its constitution, program and rules of procedure.

The links show the copy of the letter (in Armenian) sent to Samvel Nikoyan by Heritage’s parliamentary group and the excerpt (in Armenian) from the party’s decision with respect to the discussion of ANC’s invitation.