Newly-elected chairman of the Armenian National Movement (HHSh) Aram Manukyan invited journalists July 21 to announce he supports first President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s statement that the development and security of Armenia is directly connected with a Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement and normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations.

Manukyan, who now leads the party that is a key member in the Ter-Petrosyan-led Armenian National Congress, believes that the first president’s statement made on July 17, during the HHSh congress, by its contents does not differ from the one he made in 2007 and which marked his political comeback after nearly a decade of reclusion.