YURI MANUKIAN ONCE MORE CALLS COMMUNIST PARTIES FOR UNIFICATION

Noyan Tapan
Jul 19 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. Yuri Manukian, the Chairman of the
United Communist Party of Armenia, has sent an open letter to the
Communist Party of Armenia and the Progressive United Communist
Party calling them for unification. Saying this at the July 19 press
conference, Y. Manukian said that he has made this appeal for many
times, but has been refused by the current "old bandits who are used
to selling party tickets for money."

In his words, the unification of the communist forces is needed for
maintaining the communist ideology and nominating a common communist
candidate for the 2008 presidential elections. Meanwhile Y. Manukian
excluded the probability of the United Communist Party of Armenia
making a preelection alliance with other political forces.

Y. Manukian said that unless Ruben Tovmasian and Vazgen Safarian,
the leaders of the Communist Party of Armenia and the Progressive
United Communist Party, "show some sense" and again deny the idea
of unification, he will publicize all facts characterizing them and
their teams from a negative side.