ACTIVIST SAYS ARMENIANS MAY BE DISPLACED FROM GEORGIA
Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
2 Nov 2006
Yerevan, 2 November: There is a real threat of the displacement of
Armenians who live in Georgia’s [Armenian-populated] Samtskhe-Javakheti
region, Vaagn Chakhalyan, member of the [Georgian-based] United
Javakhk democratic alliance told a news conference in Yerevan today.
Chakhalyan was arrested in mid-October in Yerevan on charges of
illegal crossing of the Armenian-Georgian border, Mediamax said.
Chakhalyan was released on 31 October, giving a written undertaking
not to leave Armenia.
Chakhalyan refused to speak about charges levelled against him,
pleading that the investigation is still continuing.
Armenian MP Amayak Akopyan, who was present at the news conference,
said that the issue of the displacement of Armenians from
Samtskhe-Javakheti "is the most acute problem for all the Armenians".
He said that the project of the construction of
Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railway was aimed at creating a "sanitary
cordon" around Armenia and displacing Armenians from Javakheti. The
MP called on Georgia "not to become a participant in Turkey and
Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian programme".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
