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The Heritage Party
31 Moscovian Street
Yerevan, Armenia
Tel.: (+374 - 10) 53.69.13
Fax: (+374 - 10) 53.26.97
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Website: www.heritage.am
7 March 2014
RAFFI HOVANNISIAN ADDRESSES EPP CONGRESS
Meets International Leaders
Dublin, Ireland--Raffi K. Hovannisian, leader of the Heritage Party
and founding director of the Armenian Center for National and
International Studies, was in the Irish capital between March 5 and 7
to attend the 2014 Elections Congress of the European People's Party.
Raffi Hovannisian addressed the plenary session of the Congress,
attended by several heads of state and government and more than 1000
delegates, on the EPP Action Program for 2014-2019. Greeted warmly as
last year's unprecedented presidential contender, he expressed
solidarity with the Ukrainian people's democratic choice and called
for a peaceful, principled resolution of the current crisis.
Hovannisian also urged the EPP to restore confidence in Europe by
correcting past mistakes, by respecting its own standards of liberty,
democracy, and the rule of law, and by never again validating
fraudulent elections and accepting those who do not bear the de jure
trust of the people. Against this background, not only Russia but
also the EPP itself and most particularly Armenia's authorities are
responsible for the country's unacceptable domestic situation and
foreign policy choices.
Raffi Hovannisian called on the EPP and its member parties to
recognize the sovereignty of the Mountainous Karabagh Republic
(Artsakh), which parallel with the fall of the Berlin Wall triggered
the dissolution of the Soviet Union and shares virtually nothing in
common with other conflicts often considered as protracted or frozen.
He concluded his speech with a challenge to the European People's
Party to treasure its own heritage and values by preparing formally to
recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide and Great National
Dispossession on its centennial anniversary due next year. The
Genocide entailed not only the loss of more than a million lives, but
constituted the decimation of an ancestral homeland and an ancient
civilization.
Hovannisian spoke separately and in detail on these and other relevant
matters at the regular session of the EPP Political Assembly and
during the policy seminar, organized by the Center for European
Studies, on the crisis in Ukraine and its implications upon the
relaunching of the Eastern Partnership.
In the margins of the Congress, Raffi Hovannisian conferred with
scores of officials and delegates from across Europe, including EPP
President Joseph Daul, Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny, Chairman
Charlie Flanagan of the Irish Fine Gael Party, Ukrainian leaders
Vitalii Klitschko and Yuliya Tymoshenko, former President Hans-Gert
Pottering of the European Parliament, Chairman Mark Green of the
International Republican Institute, and President Mikulas Dzurinda of
the Brussels-based Center for European Studies. He also exchanged
views with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Greek Prime Minister Adonis Samaras who
had been Hovannisian's counterpart as minister of foreign affairs.
During his visit to Dublin, Hovannisian also enjoyed a lively meeting
with members of the local Armenian community.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
The Heritage Party
31 Moscovian Street
Yerevan, Armenia
Tel.: (+374 - 10) 53.69.13
Fax: (+374 - 10) 53.26.97
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Website: www.heritage.am
7 March 2014
RAFFI HOVANNISIAN ADDRESSES EPP CONGRESS
Meets International Leaders
Dublin, Ireland--Raffi K. Hovannisian, leader of the Heritage Party
and founding director of the Armenian Center for National and
International Studies, was in the Irish capital between March 5 and 7
to attend the 2014 Elections Congress of the European People's Party.
Raffi Hovannisian addressed the plenary session of the Congress,
attended by several heads of state and government and more than 1000
delegates, on the EPP Action Program for 2014-2019. Greeted warmly as
last year's unprecedented presidential contender, he expressed
solidarity with the Ukrainian people's democratic choice and called
for a peaceful, principled resolution of the current crisis.
Hovannisian also urged the EPP to restore confidence in Europe by
correcting past mistakes, by respecting its own standards of liberty,
democracy, and the rule of law, and by never again validating
fraudulent elections and accepting those who do not bear the de jure
trust of the people. Against this background, not only Russia but
also the EPP itself and most particularly Armenia's authorities are
responsible for the country's unacceptable domestic situation and
foreign policy choices.
Raffi Hovannisian called on the EPP and its member parties to
recognize the sovereignty of the Mountainous Karabagh Republic
(Artsakh), which parallel with the fall of the Berlin Wall triggered
the dissolution of the Soviet Union and shares virtually nothing in
common with other conflicts often considered as protracted or frozen.
He concluded his speech with a challenge to the European People's
Party to treasure its own heritage and values by preparing formally to
recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide and Great National
Dispossession on its centennial anniversary due next year. The
Genocide entailed not only the loss of more than a million lives, but
constituted the decimation of an ancestral homeland and an ancient
civilization.
Hovannisian spoke separately and in detail on these and other relevant
matters at the regular session of the EPP Political Assembly and
during the policy seminar, organized by the Center for European
Studies, on the crisis in Ukraine and its implications upon the
relaunching of the Eastern Partnership.
In the margins of the Congress, Raffi Hovannisian conferred with
scores of officials and delegates from across Europe, including EPP
President Joseph Daul, Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny, Chairman
Charlie Flanagan of the Irish Fine Gael Party, Ukrainian leaders
Vitalii Klitschko and Yuliya Tymoshenko, former President Hans-Gert
Pottering of the European Parliament, Chairman Mark Green of the
International Republican Institute, and President Mikulas Dzurinda of
the Brussels-based Center for European Studies. He also exchanged
views with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Greek Prime Minister Adonis Samaras who
had been Hovannisian's counterpart as minister of foreign affairs.
During his visit to Dublin, Hovannisian also enjoyed a lively meeting
with members of the local Armenian community.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress