Armenian communists are under government pressure: Azerbaijan Communist Party chairman

“Leadership of the Armenian Communist Party was forced to deny its meeting with the Azerbaijani communists in Moscow under the pressure of authorities of that country”, Chairman of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (ACP) Rauf Gurbanov said.

He said Armenian and Azerbaijani communists met in Moscow within the congress of the Union of Communist Parties and exchanged views about the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

“Reports of Azerbaijani press about that meeting irritated Armenia and therefore chairman of the Armenian Communist Party Ruben Tovmosyan had to deny this meeting. Armenian communists said for many times including in last meeting that Nagorno Karabakh is Azerbaijani land."

"If they don’t take this stance, what is difference between them and Dashnaksutun and other nationalist parties? I link the Tovmosyan’s statement with tense and anti-democratic political situation in Armenia. He was forced to say what he doesn’t think," Gurbanov said.

Gurbanov said it was impossible to deny meetings between the parties because top representatives of the Azerbaijani and Armenian communist parties attended it.

Chairman of the Armenian Communist Party Ruben Tovmosyan said in a press conference that he didn’t meet with the Azerbaijani communists and met Gurbanov only in the corridor of the conference hall where the congress took place.

/APA/