The new office of Homeland party led by former Chief of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan was inaugurated on August 16  in Vayots Dzor province of Armenia. 

The event was attended by Artur Vanetsyan who delivered welcome remarks. In his speech Vanetsyan noted that the expansion of the regional offices of the Homeland party and Foundation is aimed at strengthening the relations with the public and make the party work comprehensive and more coordinated.

“People with their rights and freedoms are at the axis of our activity. We are here to defend those rights and freedoms,” Vanetsyan noted, pointing out to the priority directions of the province development, the tourism and agricultural sectors among them.

In his words, Vayots Dzor province links the southern and norther parts of the country and has the real potential to become a tourism center.

The residents raised concerns over the decline of tourist visits in the recent period and drastic drop in their incomes.

“The pandemic and the indiifenerence of the authorities broke the backbone of our province. We realise that the Covid-19 pandemic impacted all spheres of the economy, yet the tourism sector which was the only mean of our daily living suffered the most,” one of the party members noted. The participants also raised concerns over number of negative developments in the country, the government failed response to the pandemic, the new requirements to state standards for general education, the negative consequences of the Istanbul convention among them.

“We will not allow the failed government and its amateur members to disrupt the pillars of our statehood   – the history, language, church and family,” Vanetsyan stressed, adding nothing would prevent his political team to stand by the country.