ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOT ON GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT’S AGENDA

news.am
April 23 2010
Armenia

Before being considered by the Georgian Parliament the issue of
the Armenian Genocide must be discussed by academic circles,
David Darchiashvili, Chairman of the Integration Committee,
Georgian Parliament, told reporters, commenting on an official
application the Armenian Assembly of Tbilisi submitted to Georgian
President Mikhail Saakashvili, Parliament Speaker David Bakradze,
Georgian parliamentarians and to the leaders of a number of political
parties. The Assembly gathered 1915 signatures to the application
demanding the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Georgia.

According to him, no serious studies of the 1915 events have ever been
conducted in Georgia, and politicians need more information. Although,
besides the letter, the Assembly representatives provided special
booklets with the information on the Armenian Genocide kept in the
archives in the United States, France, Great Britain, as well as in
the universities of Cambridge and Yale.

NEWS.am asked Tina Hidasheli of the Republican Party of Georgia for
comments. She pointed out that the issue of the Armenian Genocide
is not on the agenda now. She does not rule out that Georgia may
recognize the Armenian Genocide later, but "the issue is not topical
in Georgia now."