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NATIONAL MINORITIES OF GEORGIA IN FOCUS OF OSCE HIGH COMMISSIONER
28.04.2005 06:18
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Ambassador
Rolf Ekeus will hold a number of meetings with Georgian leaders, the Yerkir
newspaper reported. Specifically, he has to meet with Georgian President
Mikhail Saakashvili, Prime MInister Zurab Nogaideli. During his Tbilisi
meetings Rolf Ekeus will discuss issues referring to a complex project over
national minorities being implemented in Georgia by the OSCE. Ekeus will
meet with Giorgi Khaindrava, with whom development programs in the regions
of Samtskhe-Javakhetia (populated by Armenians) and Abkhazia will be
considered. Specifically, human rights issues in Gali region of Abkhazia
populated by Georgians and the opportunity of opening the UN Human Rights
Sukhumi Office in Gali will be considered. As of Javakhetia, questions of
economic rehabilitation of the region and repatriation of Turk Meskhetians,
who had been deported from there by Soviet authorities, will be discussed.
NATIONAL MINORITIES OF GEORGIA IN FOCUS OF OSCE HIGH COMMISSIONER
28.04.2005 06:18
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Ambassador
Rolf Ekeus will hold a number of meetings with Georgian leaders, the Yerkir
newspaper reported. Specifically, he has to meet with Georgian President
Mikhail Saakashvili, Prime MInister Zurab Nogaideli. During his Tbilisi
meetings Rolf Ekeus will discuss issues referring to a complex project over
national minorities being implemented in Georgia by the OSCE. Ekeus will
meet with Giorgi Khaindrava, with whom development programs in the regions
of Samtskhe-Javakhetia (populated by Armenians) and Abkhazia will be
considered. Specifically, human rights issues in Gali region of Abkhazia
populated by Georgians and the opportunity of opening the UN Human Rights
Sukhumi Office in Gali will be considered. As of Javakhetia, questions of
economic rehabilitation of the region and repatriation of Turk Meskhetians,
who had been deported from there by Soviet authorities, will be discussed.