HERITAGE MEETS WITH EUROPEAN AMBASSADORS
Support A1+!Yerevan—Today Raffi K. Hovannisian, Larisa Alaverdian, and Stepan Safarian represented the Heritage Party's parliamentary group in a meeting with a visiting delegation of Council of Europe ambassadors. They discussed the challenges of Armenia's democratic development, conflict resolution in the Caucasus and throughout Europe, as well as regional and geopolitical security. After presenting his overview of these issues, Hovannisian expressed regret that, in violation of both accepted intermutual custom and Armenia's national commitment, Heritage and other opposition MPs were not included in Armenia's delegation to the current session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
The official delegation from Strasbourg included seven Permanent Representatives to the Council of Europe: Ambassadors Wendelin Ettmayer of Austria, Bruno Gain of France, Eberhard Kölsch of Germany, Peteris Elferts of Latvia, Stelian Stoian of Romania, Alexander Alekseev of Russia, and Per Sjögren of Sweden.
