RUBEN TOVMASIAN ADVISES NOT TO BLAME RUSSIA FOR BLACKMAILING ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
Apr 10 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 10, NOYAN TAPAN. “We consider that friendship between
the Armenian and Russian peoples, which has been proved by centuries
and has been tempered in hard ordeals, should be eternal,” Ruben
Tovmasian, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of Armenia, declared at the April 8 press conference. He
regretted to say that anti-Russian moods are growing in Armenia. “An
anti-Russian hysteria rose in the country. Those who lift up their
hand against friendship between the Armenian and Russian peoples are
the enemies of the Armenians. We should not make the activity of the
two rotten systems in Russia and Armenia and secret agreements reached
between them the corner-stone of our interrelations,” the leader of
the Armenian communists declared. Tovmasian is against any bargain
on transfer of the Armenian property to another states, including
Russia. According to him, the transfer of the 5th block of Hrazdan TPP
to Russia was done against the will of the Armenian people. “They put
it on sale themselves, did the Russians come and take away this block
from us with rockets?” Ruben Tovmasian refuted the rumors that the
5th block of Hrazdan TPP was transferred to the Russian side under
the influence of blackmail of the Armenian leadership by Moscow and
advised not to blame Russia for blackmailing Armenia. According to him,
it is the U.S. that stands behind the kindling of the anti-Russian
hysteria in the Armenian society. “America is a bad country, the
American people is also bad as it did not hold Bush’s hand and did
not stop him when he unleashed the war in Iraq”.
Whereas, in Ruben Tovmasian’s deep affirmation, the bringing in Soviet
troops to Afghanistan in 1979, as well as to Czechoslovakia in 1968
and to Hungary in 1956 was undertaken by the USSR at the request of
the governments and to the advantage of the peoples of these states”.