SWISS ARMENIANS DEMAND FROM GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES TO RELEASE VAHAGN CHAKHALYAN
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
19.05.2009 22:25 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Representative of the Armenian community of Swiss
pastor Abel Manukian, head of Armenia fund Vahe Gabash, president of
the Union of Armenians of Switzerland Zareg Kurchkian met with the
ambassador of Georgia in Switzerland Giorgi Gorgiladze.
As a PanARMENIAN.Net reported was told in the Erkir repatriation and
assimilation union, during the meeting the Armenian side expressed
anxiety in respect to the current state of the Armenian population
of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region, juridical status of the Armenian
Apostolic Church in Georgia and unfair decision of the court over the
case of Javakheti activist, leader of the United Javakhk Democratic
Alliance Vahagn Chakhalyan.
Representatives of the Armenian community of Switzerland set up the
following claims: to register French lawyer Patrick Arapian as Vahagn
Chakhalyan’s defender, stop violence towards Javakheti activist and
release him.
The Georgian diplomat promised to inform Georgian authorities
about claims of Armenian community and provide with explanations in
shortest terms.