CPA HEAD EXCLUDES COOPERATION WITH OTHER COMMUNIST FORCES OF ARMENIA

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The Communist Party of Armenia
conduct at present negotiations with other political forces for
participating in the parliamentary elections in an alliance. But, as
Ruben Tovmasian, the First Secretary of the CPA Central Committee
stated at the February 16 press conference, independent participation
of the party in the elections is more probable. In his words. any
cooperation with other communist forces, the United Communist Party of
Armenia (UCPA) and the Progressive Communist Party of Armenia (PCAA),
functioning in the country is excluded. R.Tovmasian qualified the
already promoted at present pre-electoral campaign as a
"money-financial march" in which political organizations compete with
each other which will lavish more material wealth to the people. And
the ideological work done by the CPA, in the party head’s words, is not
noticed against the background of other Armenian parties’ "charity"
works. Commenting upon the National Assembly activity at present, the
First Secretary of the CPA Central Committee mentioned that about 40%
of deputies made no speech from the NA tribune during the recent four
years. Instead of it, in R.Tovmasian’s words, the people was
eye-witness of a number of "quarrelsome-curse" conflicts promoted in
the parliament hall. The CPA head emphasized that in the case of having
mandates in the NA, the party will stand near a common person: student,
worker, peasant. "We shall bring what was forgotten long ago:
morality," R.Tovmasian finished.