Ruben Tovmasyan is against frontier reopening
First Secretary of the Armenian Communist Party Ruben Tovmasyan is against the reopening of the Armenian-Turkish frontier.
"What will Armenia gain from the frontier reopening? Turks will fill Armenian markets with their rags and leather. They will crawl to Armenia and reach Karabakh in an instant. We won't have time to guess how it happened," Ruben Tovmasyan told A1+.
With regard to the recent Protocols between Armenia and Turkey, Mr. Tovmasyan said: "No Armenian knowing the history of its country will agree to the Protocols. At the same time, one shouldn't forget that the frontier was closed by Turkey and not by Armenia."
"They used to blame Communists for forgetting the Genocide issue. While in reality, Communists erected a monument to the Genocide victims. Today everyone bows to the monument, Communist Party and Soviet orders."
To A1+'s question whether the Communists don't feel guilty of Karabakh's appearance in Azerbaijan's territory, Mr. Tovmasyan said: "Then we had to save Armenia at any price. At first we saved 10 000 square meters, then 29 000, 35 000. We founded a wonderful city with a population of four million people and gave them free education, flats, etc.
The mistake is already corrected. Today the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has its president, parliament and government and I wonder why Armenia doesn't recognize Karabakh's independence. Let's compare the Soviet Armenia of the 90s with today's free and independent Armenia and see which one is better," concluded the first secretary of the Communist Party.
