ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER MURDERS OF ARMENIANS IN RUSSIA TO RF FOREIGN MINISTRY

Yerevan, June 6. ArmInfo. The Foreign Ministry of Armenia expressed
concern over the murders of the Armenians of Russia to the Foreign
Ministry of the Russian Federation, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia
Gegham Gharibjanyan told journalists, Tuesday.

He said Arthur Sardaryan who was murdered in an electric train in
Moscow was the sixth Armenian killed because of ethnic hatred in
Moscow since the beginning of 2006. The deputy minister stressed
that the Armenian authorities are competent to protect the interests
of the citizens and the compatriots in Russia. The problem will be
discussed at the highest level during the upcoming meetings in Moscow,
G. Gharibjanyan said. We must prevent such incidents, he said.

At the same time, he called groundless the statements by certain
politicians that attacks of skinheads on Armenians are provoked by
the state structures of Russia. “All of you know that the prosecutor
general in Russia was dismissed, and I think the fight against such
phenomena will become a starting point in the activity of the new
prosecutor general of Russia,> he said.

G. Gharibjanyan said the aggravation of tension in the inter-ethnic
relations in connection with the flow of cheap man power is observed in
different points of the world, and it should not be connected with the
so-called Slavonic fundamentalism. As regards the arrest of Senator
Levon Chakhmakhchyan and the statement by certain politicians about
political hidden motives of the arrest, the deputy minister said:
“The Armenian-Russian relations are of strategic partnership nature,
and the declaration of the year 2006 the Year of Armenia in Russia
is an evidence of it. So these relations cannot be connected with
separate persons.”