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    PRESS RELEASE
    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


    December 26, 2007


    Heritage Parliamentary Fraction Presents Its Public Accounting


    Yerevan--On December 25, Heritage Party's parliamentary group
    presented a public report on its activities throughout 2007:

    "Heritage, a national liberal party--national by its roots, liberal in
    its economic principles--now has seven representatives in the fourth
    National Assembly. The party's founding principle is the development
    of Armenia as a democratic, lawful, and rights-based country that
    anchors its domestic and foreign policies in the nation's sovereign
    interest. It is by this principle that the parliamentary fraction was
    guided when it offered its platform to the body politic during the
    parliamentary campaign. It maintained that principle when it received
    the public's mandate on election day. And it still champions that
    principle today.

    A. Heritage parliamentary group inspires legislativeactivity:

    1) Party MPs have proposed five legislative initiatives which, per
    parliamnetary regulation, were formally introduced on the National
    Assembly floor, but have not yet made the agenda.

    2) With the goal to improve on initiatives presented by other members
    of parliament and the wider government, Heritage MPs have offered
    numerous written and verbal suggestions, the overwhelming majority of
    which has been accepted by the creators of those bills.

    3) Due to Heritage's continual efforts toward a new method and mindset
    for operations at the National Assembly, the parliamentary procedure
    for examining legal initiatives has, to some extent, registered an
    improvement.


    B. Heritage's National Assembly delegation pursues parliamentary diplomacy:

    1) Raffi K. Hovannisian, head of Heritage's parliamentary group,
    Stepan Safarian, secretary of the fraction, and MP Vardan Khachatrian
    have participated in the fall sessions of the Parliamentary Assembly
    of the Council of Europe (PACE), NATO Parliamentary Assembly,
    Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic
    Cooperation (PABSEC), and the Interparliamentary Assembly of the
    Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). At the many sittings of the
    relevant commissions of these international organizations, they
    delivered speeches, made proposals, and introduced amendments in
    international conventions in Armenia's national favor.

    2) Heritage MPs have participated and represented Armenia's interests
    in international conferences held in Russia, Iran, Georgia, Poland,
    Lithuania, Greece, and Belgium.

    3) Heritage's parliamentary delegates have met with several foreign
    ambassadors, parliamentary groups, and international delegations, and
    they have presented to them Heritage's outlook on a variety of
    political, economic, and other matters of concern.

    C. Heritage accepted the National Assembly's role in overseeing
    Armenia's executive and judicial bodies, and the Audit Chamber:

    The party's parliamentary group has carried out oversight by means of
    its permanent and constant participation in the sessions of the
    government, the Audit Chamber, and the Anti-Corruption Monitoring
    Committee, in important court trials, and in parliamentary hearings.

    D. Heritage moves to protect human rights:

    Heritage MPs have visited numerous prisons and raised, as a result,
    the issue of political prisoners in Armenia; they have addressed their
    problems and deposited relevant certificates of guarantee and letters
    of petition to human rights organizations and judicial bodies. The
    party's parliamentary group has also forwarded countless formal
    petitions to state ministers and executive bodies with respect to the
    protection of public property, ecology, national security, economics,
    and social security. Members of Heritage's parliamentary delegation
    have diligently taken part in public rallies, press briefings, policy
    hearings, and civic gatherings relating to the aforesaid matters.

    E. Heritage takes action on civic, sociopolitical, socioeconomic, and
    cultural issues:

    1) Heritage MPs have held consultations on various questions raised in
    letters addressed to the party. They have forwarded these letters to
    the relevant administration officals and sought to achieve practical
    solution.

    2) The party's MPs have met and consulted with numerous ordinary
    citizens during the get-togethers held every Saturday at Heritage's
    central office.

    3) Members of Heritage's parliamentary group have taken active part in
    numerous forums devoted to youth, gender, and other contemporary
    issues.

    4) The party's parliamentary delegates have responded quickly to-and
    taken the necessary actions toward addressing-the legislative
    suggestions and projects offered by individual citizens, NGOs, and
    other associations.

    F. Heritage opens up to the public:

    1) All members of the party's parliamentary group have given press
    briefings, interviews, and commentaries on various topics.

    2) Heritage MPs have issued statements, made appeals, and released
    press communiqués on matters of societal concern.

    3) Heritage's parliamentary delegates have attended numerous
    conferences, roundtables, seminars, hearings, and many other public
    events.


    Founded on national and universal values, and on the civilizational
    legacy of our past, the Heritage party pursues a prosperous, secure,
    and dignified future for the Armenian citizen, and a free, lawful,
    democratic, and strong Motherland for the coming generations. In 2008,
    the Heritage parliamentary fraction will continue to expand its size
    and scope, and to prove ever-more flexible and productive, in taking
    on old and new challenges."

    Founded in 2002, Heritage has regional divisions throughout the land.
    Its central office is located at 31 Moscovian Street, Yerevan 0002,
    Armenia, with telephone contact at (374-10) 536.913, fax at (374-10)
    532.697, email at [email protected] or [email protected], and website
    at www.heritage.am

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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