ARMENIAN DIASPORA IN UKRAINE TO BACK PM VIKTOR YANUKOVICH
Today, Azerbaijan
Sept 25 2006
Members of Armenian community in Ukraine held a meeting in Kyiv
organized by the Union of Ukrainian Armenians.
The meeting participants strongly criticized President Viktor
Yushchenko’s policy to expand integration into NATO, APA reports.
Never Mkhitaryan, who is involved in Ukrainian political life,
said Armenians should make their efforts to support Prime Minister
Viktor Yanukovich. He said there will be a chance during the expected
political crisis in Ukraine to remove "orange" supporters from power,
and Armenians should take an active part in this process.
Mkhitaryan brought attention to Yanukovich’s special attitude to
Armenia, his conferment "Restoration of Armenia" medal and finally,
his being supported by Russia.
The similar meeting was held in Simferopol by Armenian community of the
Crimea. The participants stressed that Ukrainian "orange" government
could not achieve progress in the country and also failed to care about
Armenians. They arrived at a common conclusion that the authorities
failing to be ally of Russia cannot meet Armenians’ demands.
The community chief Frunze Mardoyan expressed dissatisfaction with
Yushshenko’s support for Azerbaijan reminding Armenian parliament’s
vice-speaker Vagan Ovannisyan’s "Ukraine was presented with the Crimea
by Khrushov as Azerbaijan was presented with Nakhchivan and Garabagh
by Stalin. Yushchenko might turn out to consider even some parts of
Kazakhstan and Iran as Azerbaijani territories".
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