BOOK DEDICATED TO PROBLEMS OF ETHNIC MINORITIES OF GEORGIA PUBLISHED IN YEREVAN

Noyan Tapan
Apr 10 2007

YEREVAN, APRIL 10, NOYAN TAPAN. "This book is not only necessary,
but maybe is even late. The book makes a successful attempt to unite
discourses about Armenians of Georgia held in Armenia, Georgia,
Russia, in the West and in Javakhk." Alexander Iskandarian, Director
of Caucasian Media Institute, stated this at the April 10 presentation
of the book of Head of Scientific Studies Department of the Institute
Sergei Minasian entitled "Ethnic Minorities of Georgia. Potential of
Integration by the Example of Armenian Population of the Country."

Paata Zakareishvili, member of Republican Party of Georgia, mentioned
that his country’s being multi-ethnic is wealth, but unfortunately,
not everybody realizes this. In his opinion, S. Minasian’s book has
"fresh ideas that make readers fall to thinking." P. Zakareishvili
highly estimated the analysis of a number of legal acts of Georgia,
as well as bills regarding ethnic minorities of the country presented
in the work. He considers that the main advantages of the book are
its being of encyclopaedic character, as well as its unique invitation
for a discussion.

Revaz Gachechiladze, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
Georgia to Armenia, was also present at the presentation. He made a
number of remarks and expressed his good wishes.

To recap, besides the Caucasian Media Institute, the initiator and
the general sponsor of the project is the Yerkir union of NGOs on
repatriation and familiarization. The book’s complete version has
been published in Russian and Armenian and the abridged version in
English and Georgian. Book’s translation into French is being prepared
for publication.