GEORGIAN POLICY OF OSTRICH

Panorama.am
17:14 23/02/2009

The National Assembly deputy Shirak Torosyan, the President of
"Djavakhq" Union labeled the Georgian policy towards the Georgian
Armenians as "an ostrich policy" and the evidence to that, according to
the deputy, is the statement made by the Foreign Minister of Georgia
Grigol Vashadze, during his working visit to Armenia, that "there
is no conflict of Djavakhq. There is a social-economic problem of
Samtskhe-Djavakhq, as a region of Georgia where the social situation
has become worse after the Russian aggression."

"By hiding, slurring over and veiling the problem they will not
find any solution to it, quite the opposite, they will feed the
problem," said the NA Deputy and added that there are political,
cultural-education and national problems in Djavakhq either. According
to him, it is quite natural that Djavakhq suffers a social-economic
problem, because Georgia also suffers it.

"It is important to express a political will and to give solutions to
those problems that Georgian Armenians face. Then Armenian-Georgian
relations will be more improved," he said.