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    ARMENIAN SCHOOLS BEING CLOSED IN GEORGIA
    Victoria Vardanyan

    YerevanReport.com
    Sept 7 2010
    Armenia

    YEREVAN, September 7-The representatives of the Armenian Diaspora in
    Georgia sent a formal letter to the Minister of Education and Science
    of Georgia Dmitri Shashkin, in connection with the recent information
    that the public schools number 110 and 95 and the Armenian sector in
    public school number 146 in Tbilisi are going to be closed.

    In the letter, the representatives of the Armenian Diaspora ask the
    Ministry to explain why the Ministry decided to close and restructure
    these schools and under what conditions will this process proceed.

    The public schools number 110 and 146 have Armenian sectors, and the
    public school number 95 is fully Armenian, and the Armenian children,
    who are representatives of national minority in Georgia, study there.

    "Naturally, the Armenian cultural and educational institutions in
    Georgia are under the special attention of the Armenian Diaspora in
    Georgia, and any action related to these institutions (liquidation,
    reorganization or other changes) concerns each representative of the
    local Diaspora," the letter says.

    The Georgian Armenians hope that the Ministry of Education and Science
    of Georgia will fulfill the country's obligation to protect the
    rights of the national minorities (in particular the right to receive
    education in Armenian language and preserve the Armenian culture).

    Earlier, Shirak Torosyan - the Deputy to the National Assembly of
    Armenia and the head of Countrymen Benevolent Union "Javakhk" - also
    criticized Georgia's policy towards the Armenians. According to him,
    this is "a policy of displacement of people from their homes and the
    loss of the national identity."




    From: A. Papazian
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