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    MARGINAL LEADER REMERGES

    ArmenPress
    July 18 2005

    YEREVAN, JULY 18, ARMENPRESS: The leader of a minor ultra-nationalist
    marginal party, called Armenian Aryan Union, spoke out against attempts
    to carry out 'a color revolution' in Armenia patterned from change of
    power in some other former Soviet republics, saying they are plotted
    and pushed for by Western powers which want their dominance in the
    Caucasus.

    Armen Avetisian, the leader of the party, who was handed down
    a three-year suspended sentence on 18 March for "inciting racial
    hatred," said last Saturday the recently established Coordinating
    Alliance for Protection of National Interests, will be fighting to
    drive out from Armenia's political landscape "all external impact."

    Avetisian then lashed out at some opposition leaders, who "are
    enthusiastically reiterating statements by some foreign leaders and
    defend other nations' interests." Avetisian said the new alliance
    will be acting as "a chain between those representatives of the
    authorities and the opposition who are concerned with the future of
    the nation,' saying also the alliance is seeking closer cooperation
    with Hanrapetutyun (Republic) and Nor Zhamanakner (New Times) party.

    The alliance is planning to hold its first conference on August 15,
    when it will announce the names of political forces, which have agreed
    to cooperate with it. Avetisian had been arrested in 2005, January for
    a range of interviews in which he accused the tiny Jewish community
    of Armenia of all hardships Armenians have been facing and calling
    their expulsion from Armenia. Avetisian also threatened to unveil a
    list of top government and parliament officials, who he claimed had
    a non-traditional sexual orientation.
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