PROGRAM OF TEACHING GEORGIAN IN KINDERGARTENS ARISES DISSATISFACTION AMONG ARMENIANS OF JAVAKHK
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Nov 20 2006
AKHALKALAK, NOVEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The European
Center for Minorities Issues in Georgia started implementation of
the program on teaching the Georgian language to Armenian children in
Akhalkalak kindergartens No1,2,3. For that purpose the kindergartens
were provided with corresponding technics (TV sets. DVDs). The
Akhalkalak Mayor’s Office and "Akhalkalak" community union assists
the program implementation.
According to the A-Info agency, the program on teaching the Georgian
language to Armenian children in kindergartens was accepted in Javakhk
with dissatisfaction. Davit Rstakian, a deputy of the Akhalkalak
Regional Sakrebulo, for example, considers obligatory teaching of
Georgian to small children as serious violation of the human rights. In
his words, the issue of official usage of the Armenian language in
parallel to Georgian must first of all be solved in Javakhk, after
what one may think "about obliging children to study Georgian." "And
the European Center for Minorities Issues, instead of solving the
minorities’ problems, helps the central authorities to implement the
political program." D.Rstakian said.