TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Nov 23 2006
Azerbaijani Ambassador: No Tensions among Georgian Azerbaijanis
Observed
Source: Trend
Author: A. Ismayilova
23.11.2006
The situation over the Georgian region of Kvemo-Kartli, where many
Azerbaijanis live, is not distinguished from a usual one, and no
tensions among Georgian Azerbaijanis have been observed, Namig
Aliyev, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Georgia, exclusively told Trend,
while commenting the information spread by Russian News Telecast
`Vesti’ of the Russian TV referring to a report made by the
International Group for Preventing Crisis.
Notably, the report points out that oppressing ethnic minority in
Georgia could trigger new conflict situations on its territory. The
Georgian Government should take serious steps to avoid such a
development. The report also points out that there are some tensions
in Kvemo-Kartli and Samtskhe-Djavakheti. Just the above-regions of
Georgia are populated with hundred of thousands ethnic Azerbaijanis
and Armenians.
The discontent of the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities is linked
with their insufficient representation in all the spheres of the
social life and administrative bodies of the country. `The situation
is bad due to the economic problems that Georgia is facing now,
including the highest level of unemployment’, the reports points out.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
