YEREVAN TO COORDINATE SOME ISSUES WITH GEORGIAN ADMINISTRATION – HEAD OF PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
Dec 19 2007

Georgia, Tbilisi / Òrend corr N. Kirtskhalia / The official Yerevan has
to coordinate with the Georgian administration such issues as provision
of separatist regions with international platform, the head of the
Georgian temporary parliamentary commission on territorial integrity
Shota Malashkhiya said to Trend when commenting on Armenia’s proposal
to invite the representatives of Georgian separatist regions to the
winter session of the Council of Europe (CE).

On 18 December, during the meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Armenian MPs
insisted on participation of the leader of separatists of Abkhazia
Sergey Bagapsh and the leader of the separatists of South Ossetia
Eduard Kokoyta in the discussions over the situation in the conflict
areas in Georgia. The matter will be discussed at the PACE session.

As a result of the voting, the suggestion was not approved, the chair
of the Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration at the Georgian
Parliament Yelene Tevdoradze said to journalists.

"The suggestions of the Armenian delegation to PACE are not the
official position of Armenia. That may be a position of one MP,
but not the Armenian state," Malashkhiya said. It is the Georgian
administration to decide whether to provide an international platform
to the fascist regimes in Georgia’s separatist regions or not, he said.

"That is our sovereign right and nobody can invade it," Malashkhiya
said.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress