15th convention of RPA to hold in 2nd half of May

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, ARMENPRESS. The session of the Executive Body of theRepublican Party of Armenia has just finished. The participants have discussed inner-party issues, as well as work activities of the 15th convention of theRepublican Party of Armenia to be held in the second half of May.

Armenpress reports that Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov informed after the end of the session that they envisage international economic conference in March-April. Partner of the party from Russia, Europe and China will participate in it. “Besides the economic conference, the list of the participant delegates of the convention was discussed at the session,” Sharmazanov said. He added that the convention is in the stage of preparatory activities and no other news is known.

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 organizationin the Republic of Armenia (registered on 14 May 1991).