OFFICIAL YEREVAN CONCERNED ABOUT ENROACHMENT UPON ARMENIANS IN RF
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 07 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The RA Foreign Ministry
has already informed the RF Foreign Ministry’s Press Spokesman who
was in Yerevan recently, about its concern about nationalists’ killing
6 Armenians in the RF starting from early 2006. Gegham Gharibjanian,
the RA Deputy Foreign Minister informed journalists about it on June
6 at the RA National Assembly.
According to him, the problem will be discussed during the coming
high-ranking meetings. He himself, as a coordinator of ties with CIS
countries, intends to speak with RF Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
According to G.Gharibjanian, the problem itself is serious, and the
Foreign Ministry of Armenia and the RA Embassy to Moscow look after
events carefully.
“We must come to the point that there will be no similar cases
with our citizens,” the Deputy Minister emphasized. At the same
time he noticed that “there is a problem of observing the happened
from a more global viewpoint” irrespective of citizenship of killed
people. According to Gharibjanian, displays of chauvinism as well
as interracial clashes, exist not only in the RF but in “any country
where cheap manpower has appeared during the recent years” so it is
not proper to look for a Slavonic or other track. The Deputy Ministr
is more than sure that display of enmity in the RF towards Armenians
may not obstacle the Armenian-Russian relations as the latter are
seriously strategic and “are not based on few individuals.” He is not
of the same opinion with the circulated viewpoint either that in the
issue of preventing cases of chauvinism or punishing those guilty,
the RF authorities’ pasiveness proves that criminals enjoy patronage
of some state structures. According to Gharibjanian, one of reasons
for the recent dischargement of the RF Prosecutor General may be his
not preventing displays of chauvinism. He also expressed an opinion
that one of steps of the new Prosecutor to be appointed soon will be
the struggle against interracial clashes.