RAUF GURBANOV SAYS RUBEN TOVMOSYAN DENIED REPORT ABOUT HIS MEETING WITH AZERBAIJANI COMMUNISTS BECAUSE OF ANTI-DEMOCRATIC SITUATION IN ARMENIA

APA
Nov 5 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku. Elnur Mammadli – APA. "Leadership of the Armenian Communist
Party was forced to deny its meeting with the Azerbaijani communists in
Moscow under the pressure of authorities of that country", Chairman of
the Azerbaijan Communist Party (ACP) Rauf Gurbanov told APA. He said
Armenian and Azerbaijani communists met in Moscow within the congress
of the Union of Communist Parties and exchanged opinions about the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict. "Reports of our newspapers about that
meeting irritated Armenia and therefore chairman of the Armenian
Communist party Ruben Tovmosyan denied this meeting. Armenian
communists said for many time and at the last meeting as well
that Nagorno Karabakh is Azerbaijani land. If they don’t take this
position, what is difference between them and Dashnaksutyun and other
nationalist parties? I link the Tovmosyan’s statement with the strain
and anti-democratic political situation in Armenia. He was forced to
say what he doesn’t think".

Gurbanov said it was impossible to deny meetings between the parties
because top representatives of the Azerbaijani and Armenian communist
parties attended it.

Chairman of the Armenian Communist Party Ruben Tovmosyan said in a
press conference that he didn’t meet with the Azerbaijani communists
and met Gurbanov only in the corridor of the conference hall where
the congress took place.