STABILITY MOVEMENT ACCUSES ARAVOT DAILY OF BETRAYAL

YEREVAN, January 21 (Noyan Tapan). On January 21, the Stability public
movement organized an action of protest near the editorial office of
Aravot daily, in front of the Press building, demanding that the
newspaper should publish a refutation in connection with the editorial
of the previous issue, otherwise the editor-in-chief of the newspaper
should leave the homeland “as a traitor.” The above-mentioned
editorial, in particular, said: “According to some observers, the
statement of Elizabeth Jones, Assistant US Secretary of State for
Europe and Euroasia, about the “corrupted” and “criminal” authorities
of Nagorno Karabakh is an absolute slander as the “criminal” and
“corrupted” elements of Karabakh are in Armenia long ago.” Burning the
January 20 issues of Aravot, the representatives of the movement
declared that their action is against the partiality of the newspaper
and not against freedom of speech and democracy. In their opinion,
this article “was copied from the Turkish press and corresponds to the
mentality of the Turkish scum.” The participants of the action carried
a “Traitor Aravot” poster. Aram Abrahamian, editor-in-cheif of the
Aravot daily, informed a Noyan Tapan correspondent that the newspaper
isn’t going to refute its viewpoint and he doesn’t treat the
“statements of those youths” seriously. He mentioned that the
organizers of the action may express their indignation in the Aravot
newspaper.