PanArmenian News
March 14 2005

ARMENIANS OF SAMTSKHE JAVAKHETIA URGE GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT TO
RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

14.03.2005 04:35

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ About 10 thousand people took part a rally in
Akhalkalaki (Georgia) on March 13, IA Regnum reports. On the
initiative of United Javakhk public union signatures under the
request to Mikhail Saakashvili and Georgian parliament to acknowledge
the Armenian Genocide of 1915 have been collected. The rally
participants also urged to lift the ban on teaching History of
Armenia in the Armenian schools of Georgia; to lift the ban on
conducting excursions in Armenia for the pupils of the Armenian
schools; to adopt a law on national minorities’ rights protection and
recover the authority on providing administrative services. The
ralliers also protested against the withdrawal of Russian military
base from Akhalkalaki, since it appears the guarantor of stability
and economic welfare of the residents of the region. According to the
source, the rally initiators are awaiting the response on the
above-mentioned issues till March 31, 2005.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress