ADVISER OF GEORGIAN PRESIDENT BLAMES RUSSIA FOR ACTIONS LEAD TO
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN OTTOMAN TURKEY
YEREVAN, MARCH 18. ARMINFO. Russia could hardly use once again
long-suffering Armenian people (the matter concerns the Armenian
community of Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia) as a “blunt
instrument” to achieve its interests in the region. As ARDF informed
ARMINFO, Adviser of Georgian President on Foreign Affairs Georgy
Gachechiladze says in an interview to “Rao-Rao” Georgian newspaper.
He stressed that they have found themselves in Georgia as a result of
massacre and mass deportation from Ottoman Turkey early in 20th
century. Gachechiladze says that this terrible crime was provoked
exactly by Russia armed and appealed Turkey to organize revolt against
Turkish power, later on Russia left there people helpless doomed them
to the mass annihilation. “Taking into account these historical
realities I am sure that Armenian people will not forget its tragic
past not to follow Russia’s tastes and not to create problems for
Georgia sheltered and guarantee safe conditions for them”, he noted.
To note, this statement caused discontent of ARFD party stressed in a
statement receiving by ARMINFO that “Such statements express Turkey’s
official version about Genocide and try to introduce society that
Armenian people were the instrument in the hands of other countries
but not the victims of Turkey’s barbarian policy. Gachechiladze
demonstrated disrespect towards the memory of victims of Armenian
Genocide in Ottoman Turkey”. The ARFD statement stresses that the
threatening expressions of Georgian official does not do a public
officer of a democratic state but resemlbes the statement of an
authoritarian state’s offical. -r-