THE MASS MEETING ORGANIZED IN AKHALKALAKI BY THE ADVOCATES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ARMENIA CAUSES NO INTEREST AMONG LOCAL POPULATION

Arminfo
2007-04-17 15:07:00

The Union of Georgian Armenians public organization held a mass meeting
in the central square of Akhalkalaki and appealed to the Armenians
from Samtskhe-Javakheti who are living on the territory of Armenia
to vote for the Republican Party.

During the meeting, Georgian parliamentarian Hamlet Movsissyan
introduced the MP candidates Tatchat Vardapetyan, Andreas Srabyan
and Hayk Sanossyan to the participants. For his part, T.Vardapetyan
read out the message of the head of the Union of Armenians of Moscow,
Norayr Tevanyan, addressed to the Armenians of Samtskhe-Javakheti. In
his message N.Tevanyan appealed to the Armenians of Javakhq to maintain
the Armenian-Georgian friendly relations. The heads of the Akhalkalaki
and Ninotsmindsk regions also made speeches at the meeting. However,
the A-INFO news agency reports that the participants were more
interested in the social, economical, cultural, scientific and
educational issues of Samtskhe-Javakheti than the domestic political
issues of Armenia. The organizers of the action failed to answer
the participants’ questions, and this resulted in decreasing of the
number of participants. As for the concert held after the meeting,
only 50 Akhalkalaki residents were present at it.