ARMENIAN PARTY LEADER BLAMES USA FOR BACKING SECTARIANISM

ArmInfo News Agency
Oct 1 2005

Yerevan, 30 September: “We have turned [Yerevan’s] Nork subdistrict
into a base for clearing the city and republic from so-called Jehovah’s
Witnesses and other sects,” the leader of the United Nation Party
[UNP], Gor Tamazyan, said at a press conference today.

He said that the UNP’s tactic of going to the country with
anti-sectarian propaganda, including among sects, has yielded
considerable results in the 1-5th subdistricts. Attempts to continue
anti-sectarian work in the 6th and 7th subdistricts have met with
stiff resistance from “Jehovah’s Witnesses”.

“It is hard to fight sects in Armenia because they receive considerable
financial support from the USA and are puppets in the hands of the US
security services,” Tamazyan said. On this basis, the United Nation
Party, acknowledging a number of positive changes in the constitutional
reforms, is against lifting the ban on double citizenship.

Unlike the chairman of the Nationalist Union, Ruben Gevorkyants,
Tamazyan says that “however good the intentions of US citizens of
Armenian origin, the Washington administration, which is hostile to
Armenia, will use them against us,” he said.