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    NATIONAL NEOCONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT TO STAGE PROTEST IN DEFENCE OF COUNCIL OF NGOS OF SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHK AND KVEMO KARTLI

    NOYAN TAPAN
    APRIL 19, 2010
    YEREVAN

    YEREVAN, APRIL 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The National Neoconservative Movement
    calls on political forces and NGOs to stage a protest on April 20 -
    in defence of the Council of NGOs of Samtskhe-Javakhk and Kvemo Kartli.

    The leader of the movement Edward Apramian said at the April 19
    press conference that the Council, which intends to run in the local
    government elections to be held in Georgia in late May, is the only
    political force representing the interests of the Georgian Armenians.

    However, according to E. Apramian, Georgian authorities will do
    everything to forbid the Council from participating in the election
    campaign. "The Georgian authorities have created such a situation
    that the Armenian activists are in prisons, and these authorities
    also prevent young activists from further developing," the movement
    leader stated.

    In response to the question about whether Georgia will toughen
    its policy on Georgian Armenians if a wave of protests rises in
    Armenia, E. Apramian replied that the Georgians use tough, even rude
    methods, taking advantage of the indifference and silence of Armenian
    authorities, and not because of the protests staged. In his words,
    Armenia should specify its posture on Armenian-Georgian relations by
    laying stress on its national interests.

    When the reporters reminded him about the words of an Armenian
    political figure who said that it is necessary to separate the national
    interests from the state ones and that the problem of Javakhk is a
    national but not a state problem, E. Apramian noted that this approach
    is a result of illiteracy. In his words, no other country separates
    its national and state interests. "If this is so, then the Karabakh
    problem is not among our state interests: let's surrender it and
    finish our work," he said.
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