ACCORDING TO CHAIRMAN OF ARMENIAN ORGANIZATIONS’ COUNCIL OF JAVAKHK, REFUSAL OF GEORGIAN ARMENIANS REQUEST TO GIVE STATE STATUS TO ARMENIAN LANGUAGE NOT MORAL

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 17 2006

AKHALKALAK, APRIL 17, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Nino Burjanadze,
the Georgian Parliament Speaker stated that though at elementary level,
everybody must learn the Abkhazian language in Georgia. The “News of
Georgia” department of the “RIA-Novosti” information agency informed
about this on April 14. The Parliament Speaker reasoned his idea with
the fact that the Constitutional status of the Abkhazian language
obliges to respect that language. According to the “A-Info” agency,
Khachatur Stepanian, representative of the Samtskhe-Javakhk Armenian
Public Organizations Council, responding Burjanadze’s statement,
again touched upon the problem of giving state status to the Armenian
language in the southern regions of Georgia populated with Armenians
(Samtskhe-Javakhk and Tsalka region). According to Kh.Stepanian, if
the language of the main inhabitation (60 thousand) of the territory
de facto independent of the central authorities is constitutionally
made state, at least in a part of the territory of the country and
its teaching in the whole country is considered necessary, it will be
immoral to refuse the request of giving state status to own language
of 200 thousand law-abiding citizens (Armenians of North Georgia)
of the country.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress