Armenian Nationalist Front calls for efforts to fight xenophobia

Armenian Nationalist Front calls for efforts to fight xenophobia

Arminfo
11 Mar 05

YEREVAN

“Ethnic minorities comprise only 2 per cent of Armenia’s population,
they have no territorial claims against Armenia and there are no other
reasons for ethnic conflicts in our republic,” the co-chairmen of the
Armenian Nationalist Front, Gor Tamazyan, Ruben Gevorkyants and Eduard
Ekfiadzhyan, said in Yerevan today at a round table devoted to
problems of ethnic minorities.

Ruben Gevorkyants, for example, is confident that some Armenian
politicians’ anti-Semitic statements are deliberate provocation aimed
to taint Armenia’s international image. “The task of all sound forces
in Armenia is to nip in the bud provocation by the fifth column of the
enemies of the Armenian statehood,” Gor Tamazyan said.

The chairman of the Association of Greeks of Armenia and Karabakh,
Eduard Polatov, was stricter in his assessment: “Armenia is swamped by
Turkish secret agents, and those who are looking for enemies should
not forget about this.”

The round table participants adopted a decision to take joint efforts
to prevent all forms of xenophobia, racism and religious intolerance.