Even at the cost of being dissolved
Levon Ter-Petrossian, the leader of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), talked about the possibility of forming a new party on the foundations of the ANC in an interview given to Fourth Power, a daily newspaper.
“As for the Armenian National Congress’s form of organization, it seems to me that one can maintain the structure of the National Movement and the established bodies – the Political Council and the Executive Committee. Thus, establishing the Congress doesn’t mean merger of all the member parties of the Movement; the latter will still maintain their independence and structure, as well as the right to be engaged in independent political activities. On the other hand, such diversity doesn’t mean that it will be some artificial, heterogeneous organization either, since such a lofty idea as building a free, democratic, and prosperous state based on the rule of law unites all of us. Certainly, it is not ruled out that as a result of joint action and convergence of ideological positions, the Congress will turn into a centralized party with a strong structure in the future,” Ter-Petrossian said. In response to a question of www.aravot.am whether the Pan-Armenian National Movement would be for or against the idea-proposal to establish a new party on the foundations of the ANC, Vahagn Hayotsyan, the deputy chairman of the PANM executive committee, said: “We will be all for it.” We inquired how it would happen, in his opinion, whether the PANM had to be dissolved and become a member of the newly-established party, or the consolidation would be around the PANM, Hayotsyan said that those were technical issues, it was not clear yet how it would happen, but he was convinced that solution would be found.
Nelly GRIGORYAN
