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    JAVAKHK ISSUE AND NATIONAL INTEREST
    By Sevak Artsruni

    AZG DAILY
    24-03-2009

    Javakhk

    Javakhk and its adjacent Armenian-populated regions were parts of
    historical Armenia. In general, the national-cultural heritage of the
    Georgian Armenians became a foundation-stone for re-establishment of
    the Armenian statehood in the 20th century.

    Nevertheless, today the Armenian nation is facing a demographic crisis
    in Georgia. It is indisputable that the crisis is not the problem of
    the Armenians of Javakhk and Georgia, but the entire Armenian nation.

    For Armenia, Georgia and the world, Javakhk issue didn't exist
    before 2007. The situation has changed since 2007, especially
    July 2008, after the arrests of the Armenian political activists
    in Javakhk. Authoritative international organizations and offices
    started to publish reports on Javakhk issue and rights of the ethnic
    minorities in Georgia, and the most important thing - recommendations
    were sent to the Georgian authorities for solution of the issues that
    the Armenians of Javakhk and Georgia faced. Everybody realized that
    the situation was alarming and that the Armenians of Javakhk lived
    under conditions when their elementary rights were grossly violated.

    Preservation of national and religious essence - is the elementary
    right of a human being. Protection of national interest demands
    involvement of every individual and organization - the constituents
    of the Nation - in the above-mentioned issue.

    While the Armenian figures in Javakhk protect the all-Armenian issue at
    the cost of their lives and freedom, the Armenians of motherland and
    Diaspora should only protect the rights of Armenians of Georgia and
    Javakhk by reminding the Georgian authorities that according to the
    UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights' Preamble "it is essential,
    if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,
    to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should
    be protected by the rule of law".

    In order to avert undesirable developments round Javakhk issue,
    Armenians of the world should unite round imperative necessity to
    establish rule of law in Javakhk and whole Georgia and abolish the
    crisis in the sphere of Georgian Armenians' rights.
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