IN 20-30 YEARS ARMENIA TO CHOOSE WAY OF SOCIALISTIC DEVELOPMENT, YURI
MANUKIAN FORESEES
YEREVAN, JANUARY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The main goal of the United
Communist Party of Armenia (UCPA) during the pre-electoral period is
unification with the other acting Communist forces. Yuri Manukian, the
First Secretary of the UCPA Central Committee stated about it at the
January 19 discussion organized at the "Hayeli" club. He also
mentioned that the format of the party’s participation in the coming
parliamentary elections is not decided yet. In Yu.Manukian’s words, in
20-30 years Armenia will choose the way of socialistic development. In
his words, liberating values and market relations are today left out
of ruling, and it brought to social stratification of the society:
enrichment of a group of people and impoverishment of the
majority. Touching upon the foreign policy of Armenia, the UCPA head
stressed that one must deepen as much as possible the relations with
Russia as "the Armenian-Russian friendship is the friendship got at
the cost of grandfathers’ blood." In Yu.Manukian’s opinion, the fact
that Russia raise the price for the gas brought to Armenia, must not
negatively affect on the two countries’ relations. Yu.Manukian
considers Iran to be the second strategic partner of Armenia. Another
participant of the discussion, Ashot Bleyan, the Chairman of the "Nor
Ughi" (New Path) public organization also touched upon the coming
parliamentary elections. He expressed a hope that it is meaningless to
participate in the elections in a country where the voters’ rights are
violated and election results are falsified.