AZG Armenian Daily #117, 24/06/2006
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‘WE DO NOT WANT YOU TO SAY IN USA THE THINGS THAT YOU SAY HERE’
With these words the US Embassy to Armenia rejected Armen Avetisian,
head of the Aryan Union of Armenia, entry to the USA on June 20. On
this occasion the Union disseminated a press release expressing its
indignation over this fact, labeling the Embassy’s rejection of a
political character adding that such an approach is not do credit to
the authorities of a country that views itself as a world power.
According to the release, Armen Avetisian and a member of the Union’s
student and youth wing were to leave for the USA at the invitation of
the Armenian Genealogy Association to meet the Armenian community and
lecture on national ideology and history. Avetisian who was permitted
to visit United States last year, was told: "We do not want you to say
in USA the things that you say here." To his retort that the US State
Department viewed his arrest as suppression of freedom of speech,
Avetisian got: "Not everything said in the State Department report
was in your favor."