ARMENIAN COMMUNIST PARTY: "THERE IS NARIMANOV STATEMENT OF THE 1920S IN WHICH IS FIXES THAT BODIES OF 26 COMMISSARS ARE BURIED"

Today.Az
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Feb 5 2009
Azerbaijan

The Communist Party of Armenia is solidar with the Communist and
Socialist Parties of Azerbaijan in the issue of reburial of Shaomyan’s
residuals, said first secretary of the central committee of the
Communist Party of Armenia Ruben Tovmasyan.

"They told me this in our recent telephone calls", he told reporters
Thursday.

He refutted the statements of Azerbaijani powers about the alleged
move of Shaumyan and two other commissars to England.

"I have Narimanov’s statement made during reburial of Baku commissars
in Baku in the 1920s, in which he says that bodies of 26 commissars
are buried", said he.

The actions of Azerbaijani powers, considers Tovmasyan, are aimed to
terminate any trace, connected with Armenians.

"And this against the fact that Heydar Aliyev during the celebration of
100th jubilee of Shaumyan said "Stepan Shaumyan is a great son of not
only the Armenian people, but also the Azerbaijani people", added he.

He said the world communist movement raised its voice of protest
against demolition of the monument to 26 Baku commissars.

Tovmasyan announced that the Communist Party of Armenia appealed to
the Armenian president to use all diplomatic and political means for
reburial of the residuals of Stepan Shaumyan and his fellows in arms
on the Armenian land. For this purpose, the head of the Communist Party
has already appealed to the President with a request about the meeting.

He also added that the further steps of the Armenian Communist Party
in this issue will depend on the outcome of his meeting with President
Serzh Sargsyan.