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  • Yerevan: Ethnic Armenians facing "political persecution" in Georgia

    Mediamax news agency, Armenia
    July 25 2008


    YEREVAN SAYS ETHNIC ARMENIANS FACING "POLITICAL PERSECUTION" IN
    GEORGIA


    Yerevan, 25 July: The Armenian Foreign Ministry is monitoring "the
    developments in [Georgia's] Samtskhe-Javakheti Province, maintaining
    daily communications at different levels and directions," an official
    representative of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Tigran Balayan, told
    Mediamax while commenting on the recent developments in Georgia's
    Armenian-populated Samtskhe-Javakheti Province.

    Balayan expressed hope that "the situation will be settled calmly and
    within the law".

    On 24 July the Armenian opposition New Times Party made a statement
    calling on the Armenian authorities to react to the situation in
    Samtskhe-Javakheti Province.

    "The situation recently again started to deteriorate in the
    Armenian-populated Javakheti. Forces that try to maintain the national
    identity of Armenians are facing political persecutions by the
    Georgian authorities," the statement said.
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