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    ACCORDING TO KAREN BEKARIAN, NOT EVERYTHING IS SO CLOUDLESS IN ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN RELATIONS AS IT IS PRESENTED

    Noyan Tapan
    July 1, 2009

    YEREVAN, JULY 1, NOYAN TAPAN. According to Adviser to Georgian
    President Van Bayburt, Mikheil Saakashvili's June 24-25 visit to
    Armenia was a visit of a friendly country's head to a friendly
    country. It was a success irrespective of some commentaries
    in press. V. Bayburt expressed such an opinion at the July 1
    Yerevan-Tbilisi video bridge on the subject Results of Georgian
    President's Visit to Armenia: Prospects of Bilateral Relations.

    In the affirmation of another representative of the Georgian side,
    political scientist Gia Nodia, there are no problems between the two
    countries that can damage the bilateral good-neighborly relations. In
    his words, a positive tendency has been always observed in the issue
    of solving the problems between the two countries, irrespective of
    the fact who headed the two countries at that moment.

    Karen Bekarian, the head of the European Integration NGO, a member of
    the Public Council of Armenia, opposed to these optimistic views. In
    his opinion, not everything is so cloudless in the bilateral relations
    as it is presented. He also gave assurance that it will be difficult
    to expect real development of the two countries' relations as long
    as the Armenian and Georgian political figures have contacts rather
    "at the level of toasts." In K. Bekarian's words, this discussion
    also confirms that the Georgian side is not able to overcome the
    stereotype that it is Armenia that is more interested in the two
    countries' good relations, as well as in relaunching of the Verin
    Lars Russian-Georgian border check-point.

    K. Bekarian called his Georgian colleagues for not conditioning the
    Armenian-Georgian relations by Georgia's relations with a third side,
    Russia when discussing the Armenian-Georgian relations, but being
    realistic and trying to find out who and why, for instance, prohibited
    Armenian NA deputy Shirak Torosian's entrance to Georgia. And
    Sergey Minasian, the Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute,
    inquired how much the prohibition to have retraining in Armenia to
    teachers teaching Armenian in Georgia contributed to development of
    the Armenian-Georgian relations.

    In response V. Bayburt stated that Armenian deputy's entrance was
    prohibited for his "Russian rhetoric."
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