ARMENIANS OF JAVAKHK DEMAND A STATUS FOR THE ARMENIAN LANGUAGE
By Aghavni Harutyunian
AZG Armenian Daily
19/04/2007
Several Armenian NGOs went out to a demonstration on April 13th
demanding a second regional language status for the Armenian
language. The Law about the appointment of the officials who are
fluent in Georgian had been continuously broken, announced the
representatives of the NGO-s. Besides of the above mentioned the
demonstrators demanded to simplify the visa regime with Russia,
return the Armenian directors to the Armenian schools and to carry
on the legal procedures in Armenian.
As the governor of the Samtskhe-Javakhk region declared the
demonstration had not been allowed but the municipality let the
demonstrators finish their action.
>>From his point of view the people of the region did not show
assistance to the demonstration.