YURI MANUKIAN: "IN THE CASE OF RIGHT RELATIONS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ARMENIA AND BARGAVACH HAYASTAN PARTY, WE’LL HAVE A POWERFUL RAMPART WHICH MAY FACE ANY OPPOSITION"
Noyan Tapan
Aug 31 2006
YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, NOYAN TAPAN. The United Communist Party of Armenia
(UCPA) will alone go to parliamentary elections. Yuri Manukian,
the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the party stated
about it at the August 31 press conference. In his words, the party
will take such a step even "in the case of full absence of a chance
to reach success." In Manukian’s opinion, only the circumstance that
"mentioning the communist party, a reservation is noticed, thus, it’s
spoken about this or that wing, speaks about fail of that party in
perspective." In the UCPA head’s word, there is nothing "marvellous"
or special today in the political field of Armenia. "As an apologist
of the Armenian statehood, as an Armenian, only then, as a communist,
I believe that everything is done to keep and develop the Armenian
statehood. I am sure that in the case of a right development of mutual
relations between the Republican Party and the "Bargavach Hayastan"
(Prosperous Armenia), we’ll have in Armenia a powerful rampart which
may face any opposition," he stated. In Manukian’s words, "if we
want that the Karabakh issue is solved, those two parties must make
majority in the Parliament." But the UCPA does not intend to form an
alliance with the above-mentioned parties as "no party stated itself as
a communist may form an alliance with any force of the right field." In
Yuri Manukian’s words, it’s not an end in itself for his party to have
mandates in the Parliament. In his words, the UCPA is not like those
political unities which "standing in a ownerless dead-end, tie their
carriage to tail of any locomotive, to again enter the parliament."