PROTESTERS NOT WELCOMED BY GEORGIA’S AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA

Tert.am
20.04.10

No one showed up to take the letter prepared by the National
Neo-Conservative Movement – a local NGO – at the Embassy of Georgia
in Armenia after the leaders of the movement waited near the embassy
entrance in downtown Yerevan for about 30 minutes – neither the
ambassador nor any other employee. This prompted them to leave the
letter to the policemen provided that they would hand it to the
ambassador Grigol Tabatadze.

With that letter the movement demanded that the Georgian authorities
stop the policy of splitting Javakhq region, something traditionally
implemented still from the Soviet Union times. Part of the demand
is that Georgian authorities link the Armenian-populated Tsalka –
currently in the Kvemo Kartli – to the Javakhq region.

With posters that read "Let’s Together Defend Javakhq," "No to
Georganization of Javakhq" the protesters also demanded that Javakhq
Armenians be given wide autonomy in Georgia, that the Armenian language
and the Armenian Church be given a status while will facilitate the
protection of the language and the preservation of the churches.

Realizing that no single employee of the embassy will eventually
show up, the movement’s leader Eduard Abrahamyan told reporters:
"We were aware that the Georgian ambassador is not standing out with
his knowledge of diplomatic etiquette. This was the hand stretched
for dialogue that was not shaken."