COMUNISTS OF VANADZOR CONVENE NO PRESS CONFERENCE FOR ONE YEAR, BUT THEY DON’T THINK THEY ARE PASSIVE

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 14 2006

VANADZOR, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Vanadzor City
Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia convened a press-conference
on March 14, after a year of silence. City Committee First Secretary
Andranik Ghukasian criticized the rise of the gas price accusing in
this issue not Russia but “Hayrusgasard” which, according to him,
pursues a superprofit. On the occasion of the regular rise of the
food prices, Ghukasian made such a statement: “Does fish also come
from Russia: it costs 600 drams in the market.”

Responding the Noyan Tapan correspondent’s question by what the
one-year passivity of the Vanadzor communist party was provided,
the City Committee First Secretary mentioned that it’s right,
they haven’t convened press-conferences for a year, but have had
correspondence relating to the social-economic problems of the marz
with the Governor of the marz of Lori. Responding the next question,
that the Governor of Lori mentioned in the TV interview that no
party presented proposals relating to the conception concerning the
prospects of social-economic development of the marz worked out
by the regional administration, one of the communist gave a cue:
“The Governor tells a lie.” On that occasion A.Ghukasian presented
to media a document consisting of 5 points addressed to the Governor.

Among the other proposals, decrease of the electricity price during
the winter months was also proposed in it. The communists of Vanadzor
also criticized the fact of regular creation of new parties. The City
Committee First Secretary proposed that parties unite according to
the ideology, and repeating the idea of Ruben Tovmasian, the First
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia,
stated, that the only political party in Armenia is the commmunist
party.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress