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  • Georgia Speaker Satisfied with Armenia Posture Re Russian Base

    GEORGIAN SPEAKER SATISFIED WITH ARMENIA POSTURE OVER RUSSIAN MILITARY
    BASE IN GEORGIAN AKHALKALAKI


    02.04.2005 03:01

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Georgian Parliament Speaker Nino Burjanadze
    yesterday confirmed to journalists that Presidents of Armenia and
    Georgia Robert Kocharian and Mikhail Saakashvili will discuss the
    situation over the Russian military base in Akhalkalaki in the south
    of Georgia. `Unofficial meetings can result in very positive outcomes,
    which are better than those brought by tete-a-tete talks of the
    Presidents in the course of official visits,' Burjanadze said. She
    also said she `was satisfied' with `Armenian official authorities and
    first of all the President of the country have stated quite
    unambiguously that the issue of withdrawal of Russian bases is
    Georgia's domestic affair, and it has to decide itself, Armenia will
    not voice an official position over the issue.' It should be reminded
    that in the opinion of some experts, Kocharian's unexpected unofficial
    visit to Georgia is first of all due to the actions of the Armenian
    population of the south of the country protesting against withdrawal
    of the Russian military base from Akhalkalaki becoming frequent. The
    population fears that after the withdrawal of the base it will be
    deprived of the only source of stable income: most of the region
    residents work at the base. Besides, the Akhalkalaki residents are
    worried about the opportunity of replacement of the Russian base with
    a NATO one, specifically, a Turkish base.
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