YEREVAN, APRIL 17, ARMENPRESS: The session of the Executive Body of the Republican Party of Armenia has just launched. Armenpress reports that the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan presides over the ongoing session. The newly-appointed Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan, the Deputy Chairmen of the Republican Party of Armenia Armen Ashotyan and Galust Sahakyan, the temporary acting Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov, the Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan and other high ranking officials, acting Ministers participate in the session of the Executive Body of the Republican Party of Armenia.

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan approached and talked to the residents of Firdus and Buzand streets who gathered at the office of the Republican Party of Armenia. Hovik Abrahamyan had a talk with the residents before entering the office of the Republican Party of Armenia to participate in the Executive body session of the Republican Party of Armenia.

The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA, established in 1990), is one of the unique organizations operating on the Armenian political scene, with decades-old ideological and political roots. The RPA ideological basis is Garegin Nzhdeh’s teaching. Some members of clandestine National United Party of 1967-1987 continue their unique work within the party and its Board. In this regard the RPA is the ideological and political successor of  Nzhdeh Tseghakron Professios and National United Party, which in the days fateful for Armenian people became the torch bearers of the ideas of independence both in  Diaspora and Armenia.

The birth of the RPA is also organically linked to the 1988 National Awakening, fight for independence and Artsakh national liberation struggle. The military-political unit Army of Independence, formed at the outset of the struggle, became the organizational basis of the RPA establishment. On 2 April 1990 the founding council composed of the detachment commanders of the Army of Independence proclaimed the establishment of the Republican Party of Armenia in Yerevan and became the first officially registered socio-political organization in the Republic of Armenia (registered on 14 May 1991).