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The Heritage Party considers collaboration with Armenia’s former foreign affairs minister Vartan Oskanian (pictured) possible for “achieving victory over the rule of law in Armenia” — as friends and fellow citizens fighting electoral fraud, said Heritage Party leader and former foreign minister himself Raffi Hovannisian at a press conference earlier today. He added that he hasn’t met with Oskanian and cannot say what’s on his mind in terms of his political engagement.
“Our doors are open and any political force or interested individual that wants to discuss the margins of cooperation together, let me say, that we’re open and I am gladly prepared to meet with them,” he said.
On possible areas of cooperation in the upcoming elections between his party and Armenia’s second president, Robert Kocharian, Hovannisian said:
“Anyone following the Heritage Party will understand that we’re not vindictive and spiteful, and we consider that the Republic of Armenia’s future of sovereignty is found through searching for and developing a new resolution. Criticizing all three presidents, we, at the same time, appreciate them. We’ve entered a stage where false information is being circulated, different kinds of offers of blackmail are being made — let me just say that there was no meeting of the three [former] foreign ministers.”
Hovannisian reminded the press that the Heritage Party is preparing to back Armenian National Congress member Sasun Mikaelyan in the upcoming Hrazdan mayoral elections.