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    AZERBAIJANI STUDENTS IN GEORGIA AGAINST ARMENIAN 'GENOCIDE' RECOGNITION

    news.az
    April 14 2010
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijani students have objected to a request to the Georgian
    parliament to recognize the killings of Armenians in the Ottoman
    Empire as 'genocide'.

    The Association of Azerbaijani Students in Georgia sent a statement
    to the Georgian parliament on Tuesday, Gruziya Online reported.

    History should be studied and evaluated by researchers, not parliaments
    or government structures, the statement said.

    'We refute all accusations of "genocide" in 1915 and, therefore,
    condemn the unjust decisions of several states and parliaments. We do
    not understand these decisions against the background of statements
    by Ankara that it is ready to open its archives for the study of the
    problem,' the statement said.

    The Armenian community of Georgia has asked the president and
    parliament to consider recognition of the Armenian 'genocide' of 1915.

    'Letters asking for a bill to be drawn up were sent to the head of
    state, the chairmen of parliament and parliamentary factions, and to
    ethnic Armenian members of the Georgian parliament,' the Azerbaijani
    students' statement says.

    Armenian organizations asked Georgian MPs of Armenian origin to make
    a speech at the parliamentary session before 24 April, marked by
    Armenians as Genocide Memorial Day, and to call on the parliament to
    honour the memory of the innocent victims of 1915-1923, the Georgia
    Times reported.

    The initiators of the appeal are NGOs - the Armenian Community
    of Georgia, the Armenian Centre of Cooperation in Georgia and the
    Association of Armenian Students in Georgia.

    In mid-March an academic conference on the North Caucasus in Tbilisi
    asked the Georgian parliament to recognize the genocide of the
    Circassian people.

    'The increased activity by the Armenian community of Georgia should
    be seen as the start of the Kremlin's deployment of the Armenian
    element in Georgia in response to the possible recognition of the
    genocide of the Circassian people committed by tsarist Russia,'
    Gruziya Online commented.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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