PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF GEORGIAN PRESIDENT TO
SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETIA MET WITH REPS. OF SEVERAL PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS OF
AKHALKALAKI AND NINOTSMINDA
AKHALKALAKI, MARCH 23, ARMINFO. Plenipotentiary Representative of
Georgian President to Samtskhe-Javakhetia Georgiy Khachidze met with
representatives of several public organizations of Akhalkalaki and
Ninotsminda yesterday in the evening, as well as with activists of
the rally organized on March 13 in Akhalkalaki.
According to A-INFO, participating in the meeting were MP
representing Akhalkalaki Hamlet Movsisyan and Head of Akhalkalaki
Artur Yeremyan. Those in Javakhetia informed the president’s
representative of the necessity of an immediate solution to a number
of problems, including opening of a department for issue of
international passports to Georgian citizens in Akhalkalaki (the new
authorities moved it to Akhaltsikha), teaching of the Armenian
history at Armenian schools, possibility of communication in Armenian
including in the judicial system, democratization of elections to the
local self-government bodies, the right to clearing of the customs
service in Zhdanovka bordering with Armenia (at present clearing of
goods imported to Javakhq is carried out in 100 km from the border in
Akhaltskha, repair of the road Akhaltsikha-Akhalkalaki-
Ninotsminda-Zhdanovka.
Representative of the president promised to solve the issue of
opening of the passport department before March 28. Khachidze also
promised to contribute to elaboration and implementation of a program
on teaching of Armenian history at Armenian schools. As regards the
elections to the local self-government, Movsisyan says that a
relevant law will be adopted within the nearest future, which will be
more democratic. Taking into account that Khachidze has taken his
office quite recently, he could not fully answer the reaming
questions. Instead, an agreement was reached to propose the
government to establish experts’ commission which would make
proposals on solution to other problems. After the meeting, Khachidze
said in his interview to A-INFO that all the above problem were just
and he intended to exert efforts to solve them.