Seyran Ohanyan, Vardan Oskanyan and Raffi Hovannisian signed the  Agreement on participation in parliamentary elections as a single  bloc

ArmInfo.Seyran Ohanyan, the  Ex Minister of Defense, Vardan Oskanyan and Raffi Hovannisian, former Ministers of Foreign Affairs,  leading the factions of Solidarity and Heritage  factions respectively,  signed an Agreement on participating to elections as a single bloc.  

"We realize, that there is a need to capsulate a power of quite new 

type to resist internal and external challenges standing in front of 

the country. We accept also that  to improve the social life, to 

solve the problems of the country, it is necessary to forget own 

ambitions and to be ruled exclusively by the interests of the 

country. Trying to meet the public requirement on consolidation of 

political and social  rtesources, and considering the upcoming 

elections as very important, we decided to sign an Agreement on 

participation in elections as a single bloc. The authors of the 

document mentioned also that the bloc is open for cooperation with 

all the political powers and flows, as well as with  certain 

politicians concerned with the future of Armenia and Artsakh. 

Raffi Hovannisian, the  leader of the  Heritage faction, stated that 

parties initiated this struggle for the independence of Armenia and 

the territorial integrity of Artsakh. We will struggle for our heroes 

and our political prisoners," he accentuated.

In his turn, Vardan Oskanyan, the leader of the Solidarity faction, 

stated that the consolidation of the parties is an exclusive 

opportunity to change the situation in the country. "e are sure that 

many things in the country could be changed very fast. The ruling 

authorities are an obstacle for the development of Armenia, of its 

security and sustainability," he said. At that, he  said that signing 

of this document is a historical event. 

To mention, the bloc was joined also by the Justice Party and People  

Party, as well as Unified Armenians and Independent Judge NGOs. And 

the faction of Third Republic refused to cooperate with the bloc.