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Javakhk NGO head responds to YSU rector's assistant
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/02/28/tachat-vardapetyan/
16:43 - 28.02.13
No one can order the people of Akhalkalaki, Tachat Vardapetyan,
Co-Chairman of the Union of Georgian Armenians, told Tert.am.
This is his response to the behavior of Gevorg Melkonyan, Assistant to
Rector of Yerevan State University, who was involved in an incident on
Wednesday.
In a video put on Internet, Melkonyan addresses a police officer and
tells him to `draw the troops, Akhalkalaki boys, nearer.'
All the residents of Javakhk (Georgia's regions densely populated by
Armenians) were indignant. `What does it mean `Akhalkalaki boys come
forward'?'
The people of Javakhk never accept orders. Young people came from
Javakhk to their homeland to get education. `Some of them reject the
idea of student strikes, but few of them will take part in student
strikes,' he said.
The Georgian Armenians' NGOs working in Armenia supported Armenia's
incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan in the Feb. 18 presidential
election.
`The overwhelming majority of Javakhk residents have been supporting
Armenia's incumbent president. I am just against people's
`geographical, political and ideological identification',' Mr
Vardapetyan said.
Mr Vardapetyan reported that he had held a meeting with Mr Melkonyan.
The latter explained that by `troops' he meant the police to prevent
any provocations.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/02/28/tachat-vardapetyan/
16:43 - 28.02.13
No one can order the people of Akhalkalaki, Tachat Vardapetyan,
Co-Chairman of the Union of Georgian Armenians, told Tert.am.
This is his response to the behavior of Gevorg Melkonyan, Assistant to
Rector of Yerevan State University, who was involved in an incident on
Wednesday.
In a video put on Internet, Melkonyan addresses a police officer and
tells him to `draw the troops, Akhalkalaki boys, nearer.'
All the residents of Javakhk (Georgia's regions densely populated by
Armenians) were indignant. `What does it mean `Akhalkalaki boys come
forward'?'
The people of Javakhk never accept orders. Young people came from
Javakhk to their homeland to get education. `Some of them reject the
idea of student strikes, but few of them will take part in student
strikes,' he said.
The Georgian Armenians' NGOs working in Armenia supported Armenia's
incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan in the Feb. 18 presidential
election.
`The overwhelming majority of Javakhk residents have been supporting
Armenia's incumbent president. I am just against people's
`geographical, political and ideological identification',' Mr
Vardapetyan said.
Mr Vardapetyan reported that he had held a meeting with Mr Melkonyan.
The latter explained that by `troops' he meant the police to prevent
any provocations.