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    LEADERS URGED TO MEET LOCAL MP OVER UNREST IN GEORGIA'S ETHNIC ARMENIAN REGION

    Imedi TV, Tbilisi
    13 Mar 06

    [Presenter] Certain forces wish to destabilize the situation in the
    country by stirring up disorder in Akhalkalaki, Chair of Parliament
    Nino Burjanadze told a meeting of the bureau today.

    Majority member Beso Jugheli asked the speaker whether she had met
    Hamlet Movsesyan, the MP for Akhalkalaki, who Jugheli said, wants to
    brief the president on the events in Akhalkalaki.

    [Burjanadze] A very unpleasant incident has taken place in Akhalkalaki
    [protest by local Armenians on 11 March which ended in the ransacking
    of a local university and court].

    I should stress however that the serious incident that preceded the
    attempts to create disorder [a clash between ethnic Armenians and
    Georgians in Tsalka District in which an Armenian was killed and
    several others wounded] is a very sensitive subject indeed. All the
    questions must be answered and the guilty punished.

    It is obvious that there are serious forces trying to destabilize
    this region and the country. There are serious forces trying to set
    Georgians and non-Georgians against each other.

    [Jugheli, to Burjanadze] Have you spoken to Hamlet Movsesyan, the MP
    for Akhalkalaki?

    [Burjanadze] No, I have not spoken to him yet but I certainly will.

    [Jugheli] Kalbatono Nino, I want to state, very gently, that no-one
    pays any attention to what local constituency MPs say. Hamlet Movsesyan
    is a clear example of this. Khatuna, hold on a second please. I do
    not know whether he had a fever or something else but I know that
    Hamlet Movsesyan has requested a meeting with the president.
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