NUMBER OF ARMENIAN LANGUAGE LESSONS REDUCED IN JAVAKHK
Aysor
July 22 2010
Armenia
“The Georgian authorities use new methods of repressions to distort
the national identity of local Armenian population,” Chairman of the
Javakhk Compatriotic Union, Armenian National Assembly member Shirak
Torosyan told a press conference.
According to him, a new program was worked out in Tbilisi for Javakhk
schools reducing to minimum the number of Armenian language classes
in Armenian schools of Javakhk. In his words, the number of Armenian
language classes is five fold less than in the Soviet years.
According to Torosyan, the Georgian authorities adopted policy of
strengthening the Georgian language, it is natural, but that policy
should not be carried out at the expense of eradicating the Armenian
language.
“While, we fight for recognition of Armenian as second state language
in the region, which comes from international practice, legal norms
of rights of national minorities, as well as Framework Convention
for the Protection of National Minorities of Council of Europe, the
United Nations Declaration on Indigenous People, as well as any legal
document on national minorities,” Mr. Torosyan stressed.
From: A. Papazian