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    GEORGIAN PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PROTECTORS OF MINOR NATIONS

    news.az
    July 7 2011
    Azerbaijan

    Main responsibility lies with the President and I want our president
    and the country to be calm, Patriarch said.

    Patriarch of Georgia Ilia the Second calls on the President of Georgia
    to use his power to veto regarding status of religious unities,
    though president signed the bill into law on 5 July.

    As Ilia the second said after delivering service on the birth of
    John the Baptist today, it will be better if the President cancels
    the law until everything is checked and specified.

    "The main responsibility lies with the President and I want our
    president and the country to be calm. I hope everything will be well",
    Patriarch said.

    Ilia the Second says that the law adopted by parliament regarding
    religious status is so important and dangerous that law makers had
    to think about the results it will have after 10 or even 100 years.

    "It's not our position that denominations must not be given a status
    of religion. Our position is that we must discuss it with scientists,
    spirituals and specialists. Unfortunately, the law makers hastily
    adopted the law in just one day", Patriarch stated.

    Ilia the Second said that there were nothing against Armenians in
    his words and despite various discussions, Georgians and Armenians
    have always been brothers and will remain so.

    "When Armenians were in hardship, we always helped and they also helped
    us when we were in need. This law is so difficult and responsible
    that it may be misused. They had to consider everything.

    When they question why the church interfered in the state's business,
    I want to tell you that this doesn't concern only the state, this
    issue touches the whole nation, church and especially the state",
    Ilia the Second declared.

    Patriarch said that various opinions in the society regarding the issue
    will strain relations between the religions, what is unacceptable.

    "Georgian people have always been protectors of minor nations, has
    always defended Armenian, Russian, Azerbaijani and Israeli people.

    Israeli people themselves say that Georgia is the only country where
    anti Semitism has never taken place", Ilia the Second said.

    Patriarch remembered period of Soviet Union, when Russian Jews arrived
    to meet him. Patriarch says that they complained about anti-Semitism
    demonstrations in Moscow.

    "I told them then that if they were to be threatened, they could
    arrive in Georgia. Thank God they will never be threatened in Georgia
    regarding this issue", Ilia the Second said.

    Patriarch wished Georgia unification and necessity to search for
    truth and rightness.

    Source: InterPressNews, Georgia

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