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ARMENIANS IN SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHK ARE VERY HAPPY WITH THEIR CONDITIONS, GEORGIAN PRESIDENT SAYS
NOYAN TAPAN
JUNE 14, 2010
PARIS
PARIS, JUNE 14, NOYAN TAPAN. New Generation organization of
French Armenians expressed concern over the Georgian authorities'
discriminatory policy withn respect to Javakheti Armenians,
the persecution of Armenian political activists and political
organizations, and human rights abuses and the current state of
democracy in Georgia.
New Generation also expressed its indignation at the attitude of
Georgia's executive authority that openly denies the facts concerning
the conditions of Javakheti Armenians.
According to a press release of the organization, during his official
visit to France, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili declared
at the Paris Institute of Political Sciences on June 8 that "the
Armenians in Samtskhe-Javakhk are very happy with their conditions".
To support his words with evidence, he said that at the latest
presidential elections 88% of Javakheti Armenians voted for him,
and 87% of them voted for the party led by him during the elections
to local government bodies.
Responding to a question of New Generation's representative, M.
Saakashvili denied the fact that according to the recent reports of the
United Nations Human Rights Committee, the Council of Europe, French
and European observers, and a number of NGOs, a discriminatory policy
is being implemented with respect to the ethnic minorities living
in the south of Georgia, including the Armenians in Samtskhe-Javakhk
province. "I don't know what reports you are talking about. What you
are saying is not true, I have never seen any serious organization
to say such things to us," he said, advising New Generation's
representative to "throw such reports into a garbage can".
From: A. Papazian
NOYAN TAPAN
JUNE 14, 2010
PARIS
PARIS, JUNE 14, NOYAN TAPAN. New Generation organization of
French Armenians expressed concern over the Georgian authorities'
discriminatory policy withn respect to Javakheti Armenians,
the persecution of Armenian political activists and political
organizations, and human rights abuses and the current state of
democracy in Georgia.
New Generation also expressed its indignation at the attitude of
Georgia's executive authority that openly denies the facts concerning
the conditions of Javakheti Armenians.
According to a press release of the organization, during his official
visit to France, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili declared
at the Paris Institute of Political Sciences on June 8 that "the
Armenians in Samtskhe-Javakhk are very happy with their conditions".
To support his words with evidence, he said that at the latest
presidential elections 88% of Javakheti Armenians voted for him,
and 87% of them voted for the party led by him during the elections
to local government bodies.
Responding to a question of New Generation's representative, M.
Saakashvili denied the fact that according to the recent reports of the
United Nations Human Rights Committee, the Council of Europe, French
and European observers, and a number of NGOs, a discriminatory policy
is being implemented with respect to the ethnic minorities living
in the south of Georgia, including the Armenians in Samtskhe-Javakhk
province. "I don't know what reports you are talking about. What you
are saying is not true, I have never seen any serious organization
to say such things to us," he said, advising New Generation's
representative to "throw such reports into a garbage can".
From: A. Papazian