GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR FINDS THAT FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS OF JAVAKHK, INVESTMENTS OF ARMENIAN CAPITAL NECESSARY THERE

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 21 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 21, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Georgia doesn’t
intend to create a new self-government in its territory. Revaz
Gachechiladze, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
Georgia to Armenia, who was the guest of the National Press Club on
March 20, made such a statement relating to the situation created
in Javakhk. According to him, stabbing of the Armenian young man
in Tsalka was a crime of neither criminal nor ethnic character,
but was “just a hooliganism” those guilty of what have already been
arrested. Gachechiladze mentioned that among 150-200 murders taking
place in Georgia annually, sometimes, representatives of the ethnic
minorities of the country also become victims but this doesn’t mean
that the murder is based on interracial conflicts. At the same time,
the Ambassador mentioned that events taking place in Tsalka are to
some extent conditioned with the circumstance that Svans, Adjars and
representatives of other not native nationalities live there.

According to Gachechiladze, problems existing in Javakhk are of
social-economic character and are characteristical not only for that
but for many other regions of Georgia as well, irrespective of the
nationality of those living there. Emigration of the inhabitation
also exists in those regions what is also causes by social-economic
reasons. The Ambassador emphasized that the half of the money got by
Georgia by the Millennium Challenges program in 2006 was allocated to
Javakhk. According to him, 110 mln U.S. dollars will be allocated for
construction of roads of the region. According to him, construction of
the Akhalkalak-Kars railway will also support development of economy
of Javakhk. Mentioning that Georgia wants to become a transit country,
at the same time he mentioned that the country won’t be against if the
Gyumri-Kars railway is re-put in action. According to Gachechiladze,
restoration of the railway passing through the territory of Abkahzia
is problematic because of the locality’s being hard. Responding the
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n correspondent’s question, the Ambassador mentioned that the
government of his country may not provide the Armenian inhabitation
of Javakhk with working places in conditions of market economy. But
according to him, Georgia won’t be against if the Armenian Diaspora
makes investments in Javakhk creating new enterprises and working
places.