ARMENIAN POLITICAL ANALYST: CURRENT TBILISI’S POLICY PREDETERMINES DISINTEGRATION OF GEORGIA INTO SEVERAL SMALL STATES

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17:16 12/25/2006

Current Tbilisi’s policy predetermines disintegration of Georgia
into several small states, Armenian political analyst Hrazdan Madoyan
said at discussion "Georgia’s policy and national security" organized
by Mitk Analytical Center on December 25. As a REGNUM correspondent
informs, according to him, at present moment Georgia’s main problem is
that it failed to consolidate ethnic groups living in its territory
and become a single nation, which poses the country’s future under
question. At present time, the Georgian authorities resort to the
tried method of "divide and rule," setting Georgia’s ethnic groups
against each other.

Under the pretext of improving living standards they started resettling
Adzharians into the Armenian-populated Javakheti. As the authorities
say, Adzharians were resettled from villages that were in danger
of mudslides. Improving living conditions of Adzharians, who lived
in the subtropical area, came to settling them into a mountain area
with severe climate and high seismic activity. Naturally, as Madoyan
believes, in reality the matter did not concern improving living
standards, the true reason was an attempt to weaken both Armenians
and Adzharians instigating an artificial conflict. Under the same
pretext and with the same aim, Svans were resettled to the town of
Tsalka, which again instigated ethnic discord used by Georgia. "It
has become clear today that such policy is being pursued in order
to expel Armenians from Javakh, and this in the long was Turkey’s
instead of Georgia’s aim," Madoyan said. He reminded that Turkey
repeatedly announced that it should settle the issue of joining
Azerbaijan by Nagorno Karabakh and Nakhichevan and by Javakheti. To
implement this project a decision was made to bring back Meskhetian
Turks to Javakheti. "Today Javakh is the only obstacle that separates
Turks of Azerbaijan and Anatolia; after Meskhetian Turks settle in
the territory, the obstacle will be overcome and Armenia will find
itself in an absolute blockade," he noted.

"So, when we say we have no problems with Georgia, we, knowingly or
not, encourage implementation of Turkish programs," Madoyan noted.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress