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GEORGIAN HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OFFICE TALKS "TOUCHY ISSUES" TO LOCAL ARMENIANS IN AKHALKALAK
Panorama.am
18:13 07/08/2007
Chief Expert of the Georgian Human Rights Ombudsman Office (HROO)
Staff Beka Mindiashvili and Coordinator on National Minorities Coba
Chopliany spoke on "touchy issues" to local Armenians during their
recent visit to Akhalkalak. Among such are the status of school
principals and the Armenian language, refusal to register Virk
political party and issues related to its autonomy.
Georgian HROO met with the representatives of Samtskhe-Javakhk
Armenian non-governmental organization boards at HROO initiative. After
three-hour long conversation, the ombudsman officials promised "the
raised issues will not stay unreplied," A-Info reports.
The boards submitted a memorandum "On emergency of improving the
situation of the Armenian population in Samtskhe-Javakhk and Kvemo
Kartli regions of Georgia and Georgia's commitments in front of the
Council of Europe" in Armenian and Georgian languages. They also
submitted other letters and documents which were sent to top Georgian
officials in the past but which did remain unreplied.
Panorama.am
18:13 07/08/2007
Chief Expert of the Georgian Human Rights Ombudsman Office (HROO)
Staff Beka Mindiashvili and Coordinator on National Minorities Coba
Chopliany spoke on "touchy issues" to local Armenians during their
recent visit to Akhalkalak. Among such are the status of school
principals and the Armenian language, refusal to register Virk
political party and issues related to its autonomy.
Georgian HROO met with the representatives of Samtskhe-Javakhk
Armenian non-governmental organization boards at HROO initiative. After
three-hour long conversation, the ombudsman officials promised "the
raised issues will not stay unreplied," A-Info reports.
The boards submitted a memorandum "On emergency of improving the
situation of the Armenian population in Samtskhe-Javakhk and Kvemo
Kartli regions of Georgia and Georgia's commitments in front of the
Council of Europe" in Armenian and Georgian languages. They also
submitted other letters and documents which were sent to top Georgian
officials in the past but which did remain unreplied.