Armenpress
STUDENTS PROTEST AGAINST GEORGIA’S NATIONAL POLICY
YEREVAN, APRIL 14, ARMENPRESS: Several Armenian student organizations,
united in the Student Council, organized today a protest action outside
Georgian embassy in Yerevan demanding that central Georgian authorities stop
their discriminatory policy against Armenians in that country.
Before reaching the embassy building in downtown Yerevan they marched
through several streets shouting “No to white genocide,” “Stop Georgianize
Armenians.”
Arsen Palian, a member of the Council’s board, said their goal is to
convey their concerns over the fate of Georgian Armenians to that country’s
ambassador to Armenia. “Georgian authorities must give up their plans to
implement their national policy at the expense of a friendly nation,” he
said.
He said the letter they conveyed to the ambassador asks him to come up
with a statement that Georgian authorities will respect Georgian Armenians’
rights.
Another students said they were assured by the ambassador that Meskhetian
Turks deported from Georgia in 1944 by Stalin would not be resettled in
areas populated by Armenians and that the issue of teaching Armenian
language at Armenians schools in Georgia would be revised