Javakhq May Benefit From Armenia-Turkey Rapprochement: EU Special Re

JAVAKHQ MAY BENEFIT FROM ARMENIA-TURKEY RAPPROCHEMENT: EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE

Tert
Nov 2 2009
Armenia

It is necessary to pay more attention to issues related to minorities
in Georgia, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter
Semneby stated in his interview to Russian daily Vremya Novostey.

"That is a complicated issue. Since those are regions during the
Soviet period and until recently [where people] lived their lives…

they had poor communication with Tbilisi. The situation is already
changing," Semneby said.

According to the EU Special Representative, the Georgian city of
Javakhq (which has a large ethnic Armenian population) may derive
benefit from trade currents in various directions: between Turkey
and Georgia on one hand, and from Armenia through Georgia and the
coastal Georgian city of Batumi on the other. "Problems there are
mainly social; they are issues of economic development," said Semneby.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS