MP: What tolerance is spoken of if even Russians have been expelled from Armenia

According to the deputy, the monoethnicity as a common practice in today's world, can not be perceived as unequivocally normal.

"And the particular case, which occurred with the seminarian in Echmiadzin, shows that the religious belonging, unfortunately, plays a big role in political decision-making by leadership of the neighboring country. These facts clearly indicate the lowest level of tolerance in Armenian society. We know that all sorts of crimes were committed in A|rmenia on the basis of religious tolerance".

The MPs warned that this is a very large number of documented facts.

"In particular, Azerbaijani Turks and Muslim Kurds have been completely expelled from Armenia, there are even no Russians in Armenia.

The recent incident connected specifically with issues of religion, once again showed the world that over the whole Caucasus, among all the nations living there, Armenia distinguished by their poor attitude to people who do not belong to the titular nation and religion. And this applies to all areas of life. Therefore, other Caucasus people face great problems in a strive to establish peace".

According to him, for example, in the same neighboring Azerbaijan, Georgia people find it easier to respect the representatives of different religions for some unknown reasons.

"Actually, this is an ancient principle of coexistence of different peoples on not very large Caucasus. And in this sense, the behavior of Yerevan does not knits with the recently launched towards Eastern Partnership program. Such actions run counter to capacity and prospects for our region. Here one thing is clear - Armenia is trying to present itself as one of ancient civilized peoples of the world, but in reality we see that the Armenians do not have enough even basic tolerance, to get on with close neighbors that differ from them by religious or ethnic grounds", says deputy MM.

/Day.Az/