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