JAVAHKH DIASPORA OF RUSSIA CALLS ON AUTHORITIES OF GEORGIA TO STOP DISCRIMINATION POLICY TOWARDS ARMENIANS OF JAVAHKH

ArmInfo
2010-03-01 10:56:00

ArmInfo. The Javahkh Diaspora of Russia is calling on the authorities
of Georgia and Armenia as well as all the independent democratic
institutions to take urgent measures on stopping the discrimination
policy of the Georgian authorities towards Armenians of Javahkh and
guarantee security of the Armenian population, the petition of the
Javahkh Diaspora of Russia says.

It also says that stemming from the reality, the administrative and
territorial composition of the region Samtskhe-Javakheti should be
immediately revised and Tsalka municipal administration should be
involved in the region. Constitution of Georgia should be also revised,
after which ir will be possible to declare the Samtskhe-Jacakheti
region as an autonomous region ‘Javahkh Autonomous Region’.

It is also necessary to give the Armenian language the status of the
regional language at the territory of Javahkh Autonomous Region and
to stop forcible assimilation. To give legal status to the Armenian
Apostolic Church in Georgia and to return Armenian churches and
historical monuments. To immediately stop the police persecutions in
the region and stop criminal persecutions of the Armenian activists
of the region. ‘We are calling on all the public and political
forces of Armenia and Diaspora as well as public representatives,
which are concerned about the problem of preservation of Armenians in
the Samtskhe-Javahkh-Tsalka region, to start jointly fighting for the
rights and interests of the Armenians of Javakhk, to gradually arrange
creation of the fully-fledged conditions of the Armenians of Javahkh
to build their future at their native land’, – the petition says.