“WITHDRAWAL OF RUSSIAN TROOPS WILL MEAN END OF ARMENIA”, LEADER OF
ARMENIAN COMMUNISTS THINKS
YEREVAN, MARCH 16. ARMINFO. “Only the politicians, registered in the
Washington Personnel Department, may speak today of the necessity of
withdrawal of Russian military bases from Armenia”. First Secretary of
Communist Party of Armenia Ruben Tovmasian expressed such an opinion
talking to ARMINFO, commenting on the statements of several
politicians on the necessity of Armenia’s integration into NATO with
the follow-up withdrawal of the Russian contingent from Armenia.
According to Ruben Tovmasian, to require the withdrawal of Russian
troops, possessing such a blood0thirsty neighbor like Turkey, means to
initiate repetition of the 1915. “The withdrawal of the Russian troops
will mean the end of Armenia”, the leader of Armenian communists
stressed, reminding that the three centuries old history of
Russian-Armenian relations knew both rises and recessions, but at the
same time these relations have never cooled down. Tovmasian considered
indisputable the fact of the anti-Armenian position of western
countries. In particular, no one of the leaders of the United States
has ever delivered the word “genocide” in the estimation of the famous
events in Western Armenia at the beginning of last century. At the
same time, Russia takes steps towards international recognition of the
genocide of the Armenians in Ottoman empire. Thus, through the
assistance of the Communist party of Russian Federation in Jan of the
current year the communists of Armenia succeeded to achieve
condemnation of the Genocide in the Union of communist
parties. According to Ruben Tovmasian, the communist parties of remote
foreign countries, as well as socialist forces in Latin American and
European countries now are joining the process of recognition of the
Genocide.