DAVIATAIA CALLS ON GEORGIAN MFA TO SEND NOTE OF PROTEST TO PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT OF ARMENIA

The Messenger, Georgia
Feb 21 2007

Paata Davitaia, leader of the political movement "We, Ourselves" is
calling on the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to send a
note of protest to the parliament and the government of Armenia.

Davitaia is anxious about videos broadcast by the Rustavi 2 TV
Company, showing an MP of the Armenian parliament stating that Georgian
authorities aren’t sparing any efforts to prevent a Georgian-Armenian
clash in the province Samtskhe-Javakheti.

In addition, the Armenian MP declared that the Armenian population
would defend its own interests in the Javakheti area stronger than
the Abkhaz people have done in Abkhazia.

"The Armenian population of Javakheti are our brothers and such
statements only hurt Georgian-Armenian relations," Davitaia said.

He stressed that "comparison with the Abkhaz People is not appropriate,
because the Abkhaz people are one of the peoples of the Georgian
State and Abkhaz territory belongs to both Abkhaz and Georgians."

(Black Sea Press)