STUDENTS OF ARMENIAN UNIVERSITIES ORGANIZE PROTEST ACTION
AT BUILDING OF GEORGIAN EMBASSY IN ARMENIA UNDER SLOGAN “NO GEORGIAN NAZISM”
YEREVAN, APRIL 14. ARMINFO. Students of Armenian universities
organized today a protest action before the building of Georgian
Embassy in Armenia supporting Armenian people of the
Samtskhe-Javakhetia region of Georgia.
They held posters saying that “Policy of Armenians assimilation is
fulfilled in Georgia”, “No Georgian nazism”, “A white Genocide is
fulfilled against Armenians in Georgia”, etc. Action’s organizers
assert that they pursue no political goals and the meeting is only
peaceful.
They handed over a letter to embassy’s representative Georgy
Saganelidze expressing anxiety with the state of Armenians of
Samtskhe-Javakhetia. Students say that Saganelidze had guaranteed
that a policy of settlement of Turks-Meskhetians will not be
conducted in Armenian-populated regions of Georgia.
As regards the destruction of Armenian historical and cultural
monuments, Saganelidze assured that the guilty have been already
punished and the rest monuments are in no danger and protected by the
state. The action’s organizers promised that no new actions of
protest will be organized till the autumn of 2005. -r-