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    JAVAKHETI ARMENIANS HAVE PROBLEMS WITH GEORGIAN CITIZENSHIP

    February 2, 2015 12:42
    EXCLUSIVE

    Photo: Arnold Stepanyan

    Yerevan/Mediamax/. Armenians living in Javakheti are massively deprived
    of Georgian citizenship in case they hold another citizenship -
    Russian or Armenian.

    "Rezonansi" newspaper reported this today, Mediamax's correspondent
    reports from Tbilisi.

    Head of "Multinational Georgia" NGO Arnold Stepanyan confirmed that
    over the past 5 months, the process involved "2-3 thousand citizens
    of Armenian descent".

    According to him, it extremely complicates their lives as after they
    are deprived of Georgian citizenship they don't have the right to
    stay in the country for 90 days in a row.

    At the same time, Arnold Stepanyan noted that the local authorities
    recently started considering the emerging problems and issuing
    temporary stay permissions to those who don't have Georgian
    citizenship. He noted that the mass deprivation of Georgian citizenship
    of Javakheti Armenians creates "additional risks" in the region.

    "We're dealing with nonprofessionalism or sabotage within the
    authorities", conceded Arnold Stepanyan.

    Meanwhile, Georgian Ministry of Justice told the newspaper that
    the information on mass deprivation of citizenship of Armenians was
    not true.

    However, the leader of Free Georgia Party Kakha Kukava who had
    studied the issue confirmed to "Rezonansi" that Javakheti Armenians
    were massively deprived of Georgian citizenship. The politician said
    that he informed the central authorities about it but they hadn't
    responded yet.

    "It is a sensitive issue and cautious approaches need to be taken. We
    need to carry out explanatory work with the people and tell them they
    can choose which citizenship to have to avoid provocations in future",
    political scientist Soso Tsintsadze said.

    - See more at:
    http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/region/13044#sthash.8Ro2NLau.dpuf

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