PROVISIONS OF RPA PROGRAM

The RPA is a national conservative party.
The objectives and activity of the RPA come from the ideas of the eternity of the Nation and Fatherland.
The cradle of Armenian people is the Armenian plateau, which is the godsent Fatherland of Armenians.

The supreme purpose of the Armenian Nation that approves its existence created by God, is the everlasting existence in the fatherland, assertion of its vital force, creative genius and free will. The main guarantee for the achievement of this purpose is the Armenian national ideology in which, according to the RPA's convictions, the theory of Garegin Nzhdeh has it's substantial place. The national Armenian ideology is built on the basis of combination of Armenian value system and historical-cultural experience in conjunction with the national values and the ones common to all mankinds. It must streighten the credence of Armenian people in their own power and in the future. And it must be permanently developed as an ideological system.

By God's will, we were created Armenians and therefore the ethernal contact between God and the Armenian nation is ensured by the perpetuation of the Armenian type. On this basis, the RPA values highly the heathen and Christian periods of our history on the principle of national priority.
Highly valuing the role of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the spiritual life of Armenian people, in the retention of Armenian language and culture, and, thus in the retention of the unity of the Armenain nation, the RPA regards the Church as an integral part of the Armenian essence, a natioal worldwide entity which is appealed to serve the Nation and God with its creed and dedication.

The RPA builds its relations with public and political forces and individuals acting in the Armenian present reality on the principle of the priority of the national and state interests which the RPA deems higher than any personal and other individual interests.

The RPA takes the following approach to the general principles of the state activity:
The Armenian state is the main and most effective means for the attainment of Armenians' purposes. The form of the state governance may vary depending on the efficiency of the program solutions and task carried out by the state, while the activity of the system must be based on the programs and conceptions of the supremacy of the right, paramountry of the law, national security and progress. The State must assist in the elaboration of the political system, to the democracy making process, continual advance of the society using the step-by-step performs approach. Any reform must match the traditional system of values of the society and be directed to the modernization of that system.

In the field of the foreign policy the activity of the state must be aimed at the natural integration to the international community, at the growth of Armenia's role in it, and the development of mutually beneficial political, economic, cultural, and other relations with all the countries of the world.

The economic policy of the Armenian state must be based on the global experience, taking into account the national peculiarities. The state must ensure favourable conditions for the efficient activity of the public and private sectors, acting as a guarantor of the development of liberal econimic relations and enhancement of the diversity of ownership patterns.

The main treasure of the Armenian state is an individual with his physical, intellectual and moral capacities. A major task for the state is to ensure worthy existence for any family, individual, and, hence, the Nation. The state must ensure the security of its citizens, protect his self-esteem, promote the development of his rights and freedoms, and full realization of his abilities. The state must implement efficient measures for the creation of an environment, needed for ensuring its citizens' living conditions, properly recognize their contribution into the state.

The basis of the Armenian society is a traditional family. Formation of strong and healthy families, retention and development of national values in a family must be among the matters of high importance for the State.

Education must provide a person with deep and versatile knowledge and at the same time must bring to the notion that all the knowledge must serve not only the personal welfare, but also to the strenghtening of the Nation and Fatherland. Education system is to form a generation wich must believe in high national and human values and must also be subjoined to the Armenian moral and ideological values, great exploits and losses, making them understand that the secret of nation's empowerment is in its spirit, while a nation's failure is in its weakness. The state must ensure free secondary education for all who wish to obtain it, and sponsor the higher education of the most gifted ones.

Science and culture must serve for the restoration, retention and development of the spiritual and material values of the Nation, ascertain the dynastical features, world-wide view and living style of an Armenian. Education and culture must combine national traditions and the scientific-and-technological advance with this ensuring the moral- psychological, intellectual and technological leading positions for the Armenian people. Education, science and culture must become the main object of care for the State.

The state must create facilities for the consolidation of the potential of the Armenian Diaspora for the stranghtening of Armenian State and the corresponding, respective, worth-while subsistence of the Diaspora having the purpose to return Armenians from all over the world to their Native country.