The Heritage Party has submitted bill on Recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) to RA parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan. At a press conference Head of the Heritage parliamentary faction Stepan Safaryan said that the faction decided to raise the issue in Parliament during RA President Serzh Sargsyan’s visit to Turkey.

Secretary of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) faction Eduard Sharmazanov said that the Parliament is most likely to reject the bill. According to him, recognizing the NKR’s independence must not be an end in itself – “international recognition of Artsakh is what must be our aim.”

The Heritage Party once submitted the bill to Parliament, but it was never put on the agenda.