FORUM “INTEGRATION BUT NOT MERGER” HELD IN SMATSKHE JAVAKHETI

AKHALKALAKI, DECEMBER 13. ARMINFO. The Council of Armenian NGOs of
Samtskhe Javakehti held Saturday a forum entitled “Integration but Not
Merger” concerning the social-economic problems of this mostly
Armenian region of Georgia.

The forum participants said that the region’s population is not
against integrating into Georgia but cannot accept Tbilisi’s version
of integration which in fact implies merger.

Attending the forum were OSCE ethnic minorities representative to
Georgia Beatrice Schulterier, manager of the Akhalkalaki program of
European Ethnic Minorities Center Michael Gertoft, Armenia members of
the Georgian parliament, foreign ambassadors, officials.