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    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.
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