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Armenian Analyst Responds to Georgian Party Leader's 'Anti-Armenian' Comment
Narek Aleksanyan
hetq
13:30, October 6, 2012
"Bidzina Ivanishvili can deny what he said a thousand times, or say
that he said it in a different context and he didn't mean that at all,
but, to a great extent, it won't change anything. The Georgian
opposition leader's statement figuratively represents Georgians'
attitude toward the other ethnicities living in their multi-ethnic
country. It's also no coincidence that the political party holding the
majority in parliament, the leader of which is Ivanishvili, is called
'Georgian Dream' and not the 'Dream of Georgia' - as we all know,
other ethnicities live in Georgia, for whom the place where they live
is considered their homeland, including also Javakhq [Javakheti] for
Armenians, or Abkhazia for the Abkhaz," said Armenian political
analyst Levon Shirinyan in response to Ivanishvili's comment in an
interview with New Times in which the Georgian politician said he's
surprised why Armenians live in Georgia when their homeland is not so
far away.
The Armenian analyst is sure that carried out in the name of
integration in Georgia is the gradual process of Armenians being
absorbed into the dominant culture, but the non-Georgian peoples
living in Georgia - Armenians and Turks - don't combine their efforts
to oppose this process because they don't have friendly relations with
each other. According to Shirinyan, Georgians know this and use this
to their advantage.
"The concept of non-Georgian peoples living in Georgia doesn't exist
in Georgian thinking," he said.
As for the role of Armenian MPs in Georgia's parliament in
representing Armenian interests in Georgia, Shirinyan said he isn't
pinning great hopes on 2-3 parliamentary deputies, considering the
fact that these deputies have different political orientations and
basically cannot unanimous.
Shirinyan believes that Armenia has to now try to establish the
Armenian political factor at least in Javakhq, while Armenia's foreign
ministry should deal with Ivanashvili's statement. Furthermore, such
incidents shouldn't be publicized so that what happened in the case of
Ramil Safarov isn't repeated, when in the outcome, everyone - except
for Armenia - benefited from the process.
Narek Aleksanyan
hetq
13:30, October 6, 2012
"Bidzina Ivanishvili can deny what he said a thousand times, or say
that he said it in a different context and he didn't mean that at all,
but, to a great extent, it won't change anything. The Georgian
opposition leader's statement figuratively represents Georgians'
attitude toward the other ethnicities living in their multi-ethnic
country. It's also no coincidence that the political party holding the
majority in parliament, the leader of which is Ivanishvili, is called
'Georgian Dream' and not the 'Dream of Georgia' - as we all know,
other ethnicities live in Georgia, for whom the place where they live
is considered their homeland, including also Javakhq [Javakheti] for
Armenians, or Abkhazia for the Abkhaz," said Armenian political
analyst Levon Shirinyan in response to Ivanishvili's comment in an
interview with New Times in which the Georgian politician said he's
surprised why Armenians live in Georgia when their homeland is not so
far away.
The Armenian analyst is sure that carried out in the name of
integration in Georgia is the gradual process of Armenians being
absorbed into the dominant culture, but the non-Georgian peoples
living in Georgia - Armenians and Turks - don't combine their efforts
to oppose this process because they don't have friendly relations with
each other. According to Shirinyan, Georgians know this and use this
to their advantage.
"The concept of non-Georgian peoples living in Georgia doesn't exist
in Georgian thinking," he said.
As for the role of Armenian MPs in Georgia's parliament in
representing Armenian interests in Georgia, Shirinyan said he isn't
pinning great hopes on 2-3 parliamentary deputies, considering the
fact that these deputies have different political orientations and
basically cannot unanimous.
Shirinyan believes that Armenia has to now try to establish the
Armenian political factor at least in Javakhq, while Armenia's foreign
ministry should deal with Ivanashvili's statement. Furthermore, such
incidents shouldn't be publicized so that what happened in the case of
Ramil Safarov isn't repeated, when in the outcome, everyone - except
for Armenia - benefited from the process.