news.am, Armenia
June 24 2011

Javakhk is gunpowder keg which will once explode – ARFD member

June 24, 2011 | 21:19

YEREVAN.- Georgia has recently adopted complicated approach to the
Armenian-populated Javakhk region, said representative of ARF
Dashnaktsutyun bureau Hrant Margaryan.

On the one hand, up-to-date communication and energy infrastructure is
being implemented in the region, on the other hand it remains the most
economically backward regions of Georgia, he said.

`Moreover, the Georgian authorities continue to exert pressure on the
active groups of the society and create an atmosphere of fear. They
hamper preservation of Armenian identity of Javakhk people and
continue political discrimination against Armenians carrying out the
policy of demographic changes to the detriment of the Armenians,’
Margaryan noted.

ARF Dashnaktsutyun continues its support of Armenians’ demands on
gaining autonomy for Javakhk region.

Margaryan stressed that Javakhki is a gunpowder keg which will explode
sooner or later unless reasonable approach is developed.

Javakhk (Georgian name – Javakheti) is an Armenian-populated part of
Georgia’s southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti province.