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GEORGIA'S POLITICAL FORCES HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO JAVAKHK ARMENIANS - ANALYST
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October 08, 2012 | 14:00
YEREVAN. - The political forces of Georgia have nothing to say
to Javakhk Armenians, "Center for Western Armenians' Studies"
Scientific Research Fund Director Haykazun Alvrtsyan said during a
press conference on Monday.
In his words, Armenia needs to consider the continuity of the Georgian
policy toward the Armenians. According to him, Georgia's key objective
is to remove the Armenians from Javakhk.
"At the turn of the 20th century, 45 percent of Georgia's population
was Armenians. [But] The number of Armenian schools [there] reduced
in the Soviet era and, now, they do not exist at all. If you don't
enable a people to be educated in their mother tongue, there can be no
talk about an interethnic reconciliation. Yet the Russian schools [in
Georgia] are not being closed, [and] the Armenian parents are taking
their children there. If the Russian language has no place in Georgia,
the Armenians will have to leave Georgia, but toward faraway Russia.
This is the plan of Georgia's authorities," Alvrtsyan maintained, and
stressed that the country's political forces "have nothing to say to
Javakhk's population, or, more precisely, they have something to say,
but don't want to speak about it."
To note, there are numerous Armenian schools currently functioning in
Georgia, specifically in Javakhk, but some of the courses are taught
in Georgian.
Javakhk-Georgian name: Javakheti-is a predominantly-Armenian-populated
part of Georgia's southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province.
news.am
October 08, 2012 | 14:00
YEREVAN. - The political forces of Georgia have nothing to say
to Javakhk Armenians, "Center for Western Armenians' Studies"
Scientific Research Fund Director Haykazun Alvrtsyan said during a
press conference on Monday.
In his words, Armenia needs to consider the continuity of the Georgian
policy toward the Armenians. According to him, Georgia's key objective
is to remove the Armenians from Javakhk.
"At the turn of the 20th century, 45 percent of Georgia's population
was Armenians. [But] The number of Armenian schools [there] reduced
in the Soviet era and, now, they do not exist at all. If you don't
enable a people to be educated in their mother tongue, there can be no
talk about an interethnic reconciliation. Yet the Russian schools [in
Georgia] are not being closed, [and] the Armenian parents are taking
their children there. If the Russian language has no place in Georgia,
the Armenians will have to leave Georgia, but toward faraway Russia.
This is the plan of Georgia's authorities," Alvrtsyan maintained, and
stressed that the country's political forces "have nothing to say to
Javakhk's population, or, more precisely, they have something to say,
but don't want to speak about it."
To note, there are numerous Armenian schools currently functioning in
Georgia, specifically in Javakhk, but some of the courses are taught
in Georgian.
Javakhk-Georgian name: Javakheti-is a predominantly-Armenian-populated
part of Georgia's southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province.