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    PanArmenian News
    March 14 2005

    ARMENIANS OF SAMTSKHE JAVAKHETIA URGE GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT TO
    RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    14.03.2005 04:35

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ About 10 thousand people took part a rally in
    Akhalkalaki (Georgia) on March 13, IA Regnum reports. On the
    initiative of United Javakhk public union signatures under the
    request to Mikhail Saakashvili and Georgian parliament to acknowledge
    the Armenian Genocide of 1915 have been collected. The rally
    participants also urged to lift the ban on teaching History of
    Armenia in the Armenian schools of Georgia; to lift the ban on
    conducting excursions in Armenia for the pupils of the Armenian
    schools; to adopt a law on national minorities' rights protection and
    recover the authority on providing administrative services. The
    ralliers also protested against the withdrawal of Russian military
    base from Akhalkalaki, since it appears the guarantor of stability
    and economic welfare of the residents of the region. According to the
    source, the rally initiators are awaiting the response on the
    above-mentioned issues till March 31, 2005.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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