JOINT VISIT OF JOURNALISTS TO JAVAKHK

Panorama.am
13:03 27/10/2007

"War and peace elucidation institute" organized a visit of journalists
from Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani mass media to Samtskhe –
Javakhk region.

A-INFO agency reports that the joint visit was participated by
representatives of ‘Kviris Palitra’, "Panorama’, ‘Resonance’ and
‘Kuris Moambe’ newspapers (Tbilisi) ‘Batumelebi’ paper from Batumi,
‘Spektri’ (Gurjan), ‘Kutaisuri Versia’ (Kutaisi), ‘Southern Gate’
(Akhaltsikhe) papers, ‘Today’ paper from Azerbaijan’s Sumgait, Baku’s
‘First news’agency, from Armenia: ‘Civil initiative’ paper (Vanadzor)
and from the RA Public Radio. A journalist from Spepanakert’s ‘Nagorno
Karabakh’ paper also participated in the visit to Javakhk.

On October 24 in Akhalkalak the journalists met with the
representatives of Samtskhe-Javakhk’s Armenian NGO’s. The source
relates that the visiting journalists were most of all interested
in the status of the Armenian language in the region. Mels Torosyan,
President of ‘Akunk’ Union, and David Rstakyan, Co-President of ‘Virk’
Party, presented their insights on the significance of the Armenian
language in the region. A discussion was held also on the need for
increasing the role of the local governance bodies.

Later on the journalists visited Vachian village that is located in
Akhalkalaki region and got information about the socioeconomic state
of people.

On October 25 the group visited Ninotsminda region.