CHOICE OF PARTICIPANTS OF DISCUSSION OF PROGRAM TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY
USAID IN REGION OF AKHALTSKHA HELD BY DISCRIMINATIVE PRINCIPLES

AKHALKALAK, APRIL 28, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The United States
Agency for International Development (USAID) envisages to implement
within the framework of the “Society’s Participation in Local
Self-Government” a program of 50 thousand U.S. dollars grants. Three
social programs will be implemented in the cities of Akhaltskha, Vale
and in a village. But, according to the “A-Info” agency, choice of
participants of the draft discussion taken place on April 26-27 was
held by discriminative principles. Particularly, representatives of
all the 5 Armenian rural councils, who represent 15 villages, were not
invited, when all the Georgian rural councils were represented. Two
Armenian representatives of public organizations were invited, and the
number of Georgians was more. The Armenian participants of the
discussion expressed their dissatisfaction on that occasion.