{"id":169000,"date":"2012-03-16T16:36:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T12:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=169000"},"modified":"2012-03-16T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T12:41:02","slug":"heritage-party-and-free-democrats-alliance-has-long-been-ripe-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/16\/heritage-party-and-free-democrats-alliance-has-long-been-ripe-party-leader.html","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Party and Free Democrats Alliance &#8216;Has Long Been Ripe&#8217;: Party Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2008 passed and now Armenia is experiencing a different reality, but many political forces \u2014 including many Pan-Armenian National Movement (HHSh) members \u2014 have remained in the past, writer, publicist Marine Petrosyan said at the Free Democrats&#8217; congress today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Losing is a harsh thing. But if you don&#8217;t confess your loss, you can&#8217;t move forward. I&#8217;m happy that in this room [today] are people who had the courage to accept that they lost and moved forward. I&#8217;m happy that many HHSh members moved forward and created the Free Democrats party,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>In the opinion of the former Armenian National Congress (HAK) member, a part of Armenian society perceives freedom incorrectly, while &#8220;nationalism&#8221; is associated with the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/19\/we-dont-know-why-were-here-youth-at-hayots-ardzivner-march-today.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hayots Artsivner<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> (&#8220;Armenian Eagles&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Another former HAK member, Karapet Rubinyan, also welcomed former HHSh members&#8217; move to establish Free Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unlike HHSh, which was established by quite a motley group, the Democrats was founded by experienced people; therefore, the responsibility is greater. I want your party to give lessons on people who have become prisoners of idols \u2014 disperse the atmosphere of repulsive lies,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Also participating in the congress was the Conservative Party, a HAK member party. Party leader Mikael Hayrapetyan said that he sees the Free Democrats&#8217; struggle for decolonization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s finally open the KGB archives. Our first step is being released from Russian colonialism&#8230; That which is called the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States] is an anachronism. The guarantee of our country&#8217;s security has to be NATO,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Free Democrats party leader Khachatur Kokobelyan said the axis of their plans is comprised of the following: the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Karabakh&#8217;s participation in the Minsk Group negotiations, Armenia establishing normal realizations with all its neighbors and EU-Armenia relations.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the time for the Heritage Party and the Free Democrats to unite has long been ripe. &#8220;We find that the Heritage Party is that force which can lead to serious changes, &#8221; he said, without, however, making an official statement as to whether the two parties would join an alliance or not.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Free Democrats was founded by experienced people; therefore, the responsibility is greater. 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