GEORGIANS STAGE RALLY FOR “PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE” IN MULTIETHNIC DISTRICT
Prime-News
16 Mar 06
Tbilisi, 16 March: Georgian residents of Tsalka District staged
a peaceful rally outside the local administration building today
and called on the non-Georgian population of the district to seek
peaceful coexistence.
The head of the Tsalka District administration, Mikheil Tskitishvili,
told Prime-News that several dozen participants of the rally did
not demand privileges for the Georgian population but agreed with
the administration’s position that law enforcers should carry out
preventive measures more actively. Wrongdoers should be punished by law
equally, regardless of whether they are ethnic Armenians or Georgians,
the rally participants said.
As regards official record keeping, it should be carried out in
Georgian, the state language, they said. The participants called
on the non-Georgian population to live in peace. [Passage omitted:
background on recent protest rallies staged by ethnic Armenians]
There are 10,000 ethnic Georgian and 12,000 ethnic Armenian residents
in Tsalka District.