Raffi Hovhannisyan, founder of the Heritage Party in Armenia, confessed that the party had "retreated from its decided upon path" in his speech at Heritage’s 6th  party congress.   He also said that there were election-related and other infractions at the party’s previous conference. Mr. Hovhannisyan bade a fond farewell to those dismissed party members and thanked them for their cooperation in the past. He also said that the Armenian community in Javakhk, Georgia, must find its own "identity formula" and that the Georgian government must respect it.