ARMENIAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST: IN ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN RELATIONS THERE IS DIRECT EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION WITH THIRD PARTY
Yerevan, October 17. ArmInfo. Today, at a press-conference at the
National press-club, Igor Mouradyan, a famous Armenian political
scientist, said that in the Armenian-Georgian relations there is
direct evidence of collusion, probably, with a third party
He noted that from 1997 till 2003 he actively took up the problems
of the Georgian region Samtskhe-Javakheti, participating in
three EU expert programs. Besides, he has lately returned from
Samtskhe-Javakheti, therefore he knows the situation in the region
from within. According to him, there was a period when public
organizations were actively established in the region and were
controlled by Armenia. They gave diverse information, but because of
the lack of bright leaders they gradually lost their topicality. At
the moment these are just offices with few people. Another thing is
the recently established which unifies about 20 organizations. Its
main body consists of 2-3 thousand of politically competent young men,
mostly from the Youth Center. They have 15-20 representatives in each
village of the region. Igor Mouradyan is convinced that the received no
more than 70% of votes at the recent municipal elections of Georgia,
however Tbilisi could not afford the defeat of the ruling party,
that’s why only 5 representatives remained in the organization in
the rural administrations.
In this connection, Mouradyan noted that the West considers
Samtskhe-Javakheti a kind of , allowing the Georgian authorities to do
anything they like, as the international community is very interested
in the region and considers that the USA-Turkey relations depend on
this region. It resulted in the acknowledgement, though with minor
reservations, of the recent regional municipal elections corresponding
to the European standards by the OSCE mission of observers. Mouradyan
said that the international community considers Georgia not capable
to maintain the security in the region, therefore some international
contingent will certainly be present in Georgia.
However, he emphasized that the recent Georgian-Russian crisis
postponed Georgia’s joining the NATO for several years at least.
As regards the Armenian-Georgian relations, Armenia is evidently
carrying out some obligation, most likely, to the West, in Mouradyan’s
opinion. This may explain Armenia’s non-intervention into the
Javakhk problem, and the recent arrest of Vahagn Chakhalyan,
a activist. Mouradyan said that there are not and cannot be any
documents about such collusion, but this is the most logic explanation
of official Yerevan’s actions. He thinks that, probably, at the
price of such policy of Armenia, the international community will
acknowledge the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
