TBILISI DOES EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO DRIVE ARMENIANS OUT OF JAVAKHETI

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 15 2009

Georgia is multiethnic country and solution of domestic problems is
not possible without participation of ethnic minorities, an Armenian
expert said.

"Today oppositionists do not suggest any idea to lead the country
out of the current situation. That is why Armenian population of
Samtskhe-Javakheti does not anchor hopes with them. That is hopeless
war for ruling and ethnic minorities of Georgia are passive in this
respect," Haykazun Alvrtsyan, director of Western Armenians Studies
Center, told reporters in Yerevan.

Dwelling on the problems of the Armenian population of Javakheti,
he noted that Georgian authorities see the problem solution only by
evicting Armenians from this region.

"Retention of Armenian Diaspora in Samtskhe-Javakheti has strategic
meaning for Armenia. If Georgians manage to clear the region from
Armenians, Meskhetian Turks will transmigrate there. In this case
Armenia will be in total Turkish blockade," Alvrtsyan said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress