GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTER PROUD HIS MOTHER IS ARMENIAN

10.06.2004 17:39

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ My mother is Armenian and I will always speak
proudly about it, Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania stated
in the Parliament today in response to Deputy Gocha Pipia’s claim
that Government members report their and their parents’ national
and religious identity. As reported by Georgian sources, Pipia’s
address caused indignation among the leadership of the Parliament
and Government, who qualified such statements of the Deputy as
anti-constitutional. As a sign of protest members of the Georgian
Government left the conference hall. Zurab Zhvania stated he would
recall it “with shame that such a question was raised in the Georgian
Parliament.”