And once again, this time our four golden boys martyred out of turn and against all hope as the target in Ilham’s and Nikol’s coordinated policy.
With boundless sorrow I share the unspeakable grief of Armo’s, Samvel’s, Yervand’s, and Gagik’s families and of their fellow servicemen. May their living memory guide us, the carriers of our heritage, toward the light of truth, wisdom and the power of will, redemption and the full recovery of our backbone.
Armen Ashotyan is a respected member of the Assemblies of the European People's Party and the Centrist Democrat International, and as of today he is Armenia's newest political prisoner.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan keep announcing a deal is imminent. But whether or not they reach an agreement, there will never be peace here.
BY RAFFI K. HOVANNISIAN
Armenia’s first minister of foreign affairs,
is the founding chairman of the Heritage Party.
One hundred and five years ago, the First was proclaimed.
Honor and glory to its founders, guardians and protectors, all devoted heirs—generation after generation. Without it, fragile and deficient but heroic, long-suffering but enlightened, unprepared for the incessant series of blows from inside and out but still strong in spirit, we would not have had our twin worlds of the Republic of Armenia and our standard-bearer Artsakh—we ourselves would not have existed even on this last state frontline of hope representing a sliver of our larger Homeland.
Glory to its liberators, to those who made it a fertile hearth and gave it blood of life, and to its defenders!
Even for thirty years we were unable to preserve her—presidents and premiers, ministers and generals, officials both native and from the diaspora.
How arrogant and megalomaniac, greedy and gluttonous, myopic and self-taken were we, the unworthy standard-bearers, entrusted with the responsibility for national rights and state interest.
“The siege of Artsakh should have the same effect as the siege and fall of Constantinople for Europe.” what happened at the session of the EPP political assembly? The interlocutor of “Aravot” is Raffi Hovhannisian, the leader of the “Heritage” party and the first foreign minister of RA.
