‘Newly Independent Armenia Still Suffers’: Heritage Party on Eve of Armenia’s 20th Anniversary

The path to independence was hard and the price paid, extremely high: thousands of Armenian heroes fell for the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia’s sovereignty. So reads a congratulatory message by the opposition Heritage Party on the occasion of the Republic of Armenia’s 20th anniversary.

“The Third Republic that fought its independence on the eve of the 21st century received a rich economic, scientific, educational and cultural heritage from the First and Second republics. During the past 20 years [it] was expected to become the symbol and the crown of the Armenian statehoods [that] ever existed during centuries. But unfortunately that was not the case: the newly independent Armenia still suffers from injustice, illegalities and lack of freedom.

“Now we hope that after the irrational, sometimes even narrow-minded policies adopted by all the previous governments, we would finally have policies that are based on national interests, effective governance and right strategies that would bring a secure and prosperous future to all social groups, all citizens who founded the Republic, and that no Armenian would ever again feel as if he was an alien in his own homeland and leave it for good.

“We will get to this goal by uniting our capacities, by suggesting a new political alternative and with the commitment to create a state that has been the dream of the Armenians who founded the Republic,” reads the message, in part.