ARMENIAN PARTY LEADER BLAMES USA FOR BACKING SECTARIANISM ArmInfo News Agency Oct 1 2005 Yerevan, 30 September: "We have turned [Yerevan's] Nork subdistrict into a base for clearing the city and republic from so-called Jehovah's Witnesses and other sects," the leader of the United Nation Party [UNP], Gor Tamazyan, said at a press conference today. He said that the UNP's tactic of going to the country with anti-sectarian propaganda, including among sects, has yielded considerable results in the 1-5th subdistricts. Attempts to continue anti-sectarian work in the 6th and 7th subdistricts have met with stiff resistance from "Jehovah's Witnesses". "It is hard to fight sects in Armenia because they receive considerable financial support from the USA and are puppets in the hands of the US security services," Tamazyan said. On this basis, the United Nation Party, acknowledging a number of positive changes in the constitutional reforms, is against lifting the ban on double citizenship. Unlike the chairman of the Nationalist Union, Ruben Gevorkyants, Tamazyan says that "however good the intentions of US citizens of Armenian origin, the Washington administration, which is hostile to Armenia, will use them against us," he said.
