At today’s press conference Heritage board chair Anahit Bakhshyan, Stepan Safaryan and Hovsep Khurshudyan explained that a lot of issues related to the launch of the Congress were not clear for them yet. Heritage expects getting the answers to the following questions in the near future: the Congress structure, make-up; will the Congress have a chairman, or not; how will the decisions be adopted; how will the internal relations be regulated; what kind of strategy will be conducted? Heritage considers that 3 issues raised today by the Congress are equally relevant for them. These are – disclosing the March 1 tragedy; the press freedom; releasing the prisoners. Heritage joins the offer to conduct a dialogue with the authorities as soon as they are implemented, as well as joins the demand to conduct extraordinary elections. However, as told by Stepan Safaryan, they are short-term issues, “Let’s assume that the tragedy of March 1 has been disclosed, the dialogue has happened, the problems have been sold. What will the Congress do afterwards? It is not right to get together only around short-term issues, although I welcome that initiative of the opposition.”

Heritage prefers joining the Congress after platform and strategy-related clarifications, whereas Hovsep Khurshudyan states that the Congress initiative group prefers getting together and working out the platform and the strategy afterwards.