ARMENIANS AND GEORGIANS IN TSALKA MAKE PEACE
ArmenPress
May 24 2004
TSALKA, MAY 21, ARMENPRESS: Ethnic Armenians in Georgia’s region of
Tsalka and local Georgians have reportedly overcome the tension that
was caused by recent clashes between them deciding to organize a joint
concert on May 26, the day when Georgia celebrates independence day
in a sign of friendship, the local A-Info news agency reported.
Ethnic Armenians comprise 57% of population of Tsalka district in Kvemo
Kartli region with population around 20,000. Also 4,500 ethnic Greeks,
2,500 ethnic Georgians, up to 2,000 Azerbaijanis live in the Tsalka
district. Local officials described clashes between ethnic Georgians
and Armenians as “a communal violence.”