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    ARMENIANS OF SOUTHERN GEORGIAN REGION SEEK AUTONOMY

    Azg
    Aug 20 2008
    Armenia

    "Georgia's only way is federative country"

    The board of non-governmental organizations of Armenians in [Georgia's]
    Samtskhe-Javakhk [Samtskhe-Javakhketi] and Kvemo Kartveli has issued a
    statement, which says in particular: "It is apparent that the civilian
    population suffers most from the attempts to settle inter-ethnic
    issues by military methods. We, the public representatives of the
    Armenians in Samtskhe-Javakhk and Kvemo Kartveli regions, being
    concerned about peace and stability and the future of our country,
    believe that in order to restore Georgia's territorial integrity
    and sovereignty in a stable and democratic way, in order to settle
    the current ethnic problems fairly, Georgia should be a federation
    consisting of regional units and central government."

    The statement also says that "Samtskhe-Javakhk, with its current
    borders, and those neighboring villages of Kvemo Kartveli that are
    predominantly populated by Armenians should be reorganized as an
    autonomous region within the federative Georgian state, granting it
    substantial self-governing rights." The statement then concludes:
    "We realize that this statement will not be accepted in the same way
    by everybody: there will be attempts to misinterpret and exploit
    it. But we, being citizens who are concerned about the fate of
    Georgia, had to repeat this truth we have been voicing for years. We
    will be led exclusively by the interests of Georgia and its part of
    Samtskhe-Javakhk. The memory of those killed in the recent clashes
    calls for this, this is what Georgia's future calls for."
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