REVAZ GACHECHILADZE: GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES DON’T PURSUE ANTI-ARMENIAN POLICY
PanARMENIAN.Net
20.03.2006 21:51 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The incidents in Tsalka should be rated as malicious
hooliganism, Georgian Ambassador to Armenia Revaz Gachechiladze stated
when responding to PanARMENIAN.Net reporter’s question. In his words,
the killing of 23-year-old Gevorg Gevorgyan should be referred to
everyday life. “I do not think State Minister Georgy Khaindrava was
right to rate the killing as criminal disorder. Young people drank,
fought and this ended in a tragedy. Those guilty were arrested and will
be punished according to the law,” he said. At the same time he noted
that 150-200 murders are committed in Georgia every year for social and
economic motives. “In Armenia the number of murders is much smaller. It
is clear. Your country is mono-ethnic. The population of Georgia
is multinational and conflicts are inevitable. Swans, Adjarians,
Georgians and Turks live in Tsalka besides Armenians. Presently some
1800 people of Tsalka live beyond social control. These are young
people, who do not obey the elders. Collisions are always possible
in such a region. I would not condition the tension in Javakhk by
political motives. The social-economic factor plays the major role
here. The Georgian authorities do not pursue a purposeful ethnic
policy targeted at displacement of Armenians from Javakhetia,” the
Georgian Ambassador said.
Revaz Gachechiladze also noted that other national minorities
in Georgia, Azeris for example live in worse social-economic
conditions. “We cannot resolve all the problems at once and we cannot
engage with the Javakhk problem only ignoring the other regions,”
Gachechiladze said. To remind, in the air of Shant TV Channel Georgian
State Minister for Migration Affairs Georgy Khaindrava said “the
killing in Tsalka is the result of a criminal disorder which won’t
tell on the Armenian-Georgian relations.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
