Georgia Doesn’t Give Up Anti-Armenian Policy

GEORGIA DOESN’T GIVE UP ANTI-ARMENIAN POLICY

PanARMENIAN.Net
23.02.2009 13:37 GMT+04:00

For the past 15 years, both Yerevan and Tbilisi have been trying
to turn the problem of Javakhk into a social issue, an Armenian
expert said.

"Whatever officials say, the problem is a political one. Armenians
are deprived of the possibility to study in their native language
and are persecuted. The Russian factor also serves as justification
of anti-Armenian policy. Moreover, absence of Georgian diaspora in
Armenia also has its role in Georgia’s governmental course," Sergei
Minasyan, deputy director of Caucasus Media Institute told a news
conference in Yerevan on Monday.

For her part, Noravank Foundation expert Tamara Vardanyan emphasized
that Georgia has always pursued anti-Armenian policy.

"Armenians are not mentioned in Georgian text books," she said,
adding that the Georgian authorities have always viewed Armenians an
obstacle to consolidation of Georgian ethnos.