Azeri official critical of OSCE report on settlement of Armenians in Karabakh

Ayna, Baku
18 Mar 05 p 1

Text of S. Mammadov report by Azerbaijani newspaper Ayna on 18 March
headlined “Official Baku blames the factfinding mission” and “Araz
Azimov: ‘The statement that the Nagornyy Karabakh leadership is behind
the illegal settlement is illogical'”

The OSCE factfinding mission has submitted its final report on the
illegal settlement of Armenian families in the occupied Azerbaijani
lands to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna. The hearings were also
attended by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen and the special envoy of
the OSCE chairman-in-office, Andrzej Kasprzyk.

The adviser to the Azerbaijani ambassador in Vienna, Parviz Sahbazov,
and Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan also attended the
discussions at the OSCE Permanent Council.

The members of the mission reported in detail on their visits,
meetings and conversations with residents in various areas. The
mission does not think that the settlement is being carried out as a
result of the Armenian government’s purposeful policy. They think that
first of all, the Karabakh leadership is responsible for the
settlement.

Richard Murphy, head of the OSCE Press and Public Information Office,
said that the OSCE Permanent Council had backed the mission’s
conclusion. The mission came up with several recommendations, he
said. They stated that any further settlement in the occupied
Azerbaijani lands should be ruled out.

“They also gave a number of recommendations. First, any further
settlement in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands should be ruled out from now
on. Second, educational and cultural facilities, as well as material
and spiritual artefacts should be protected. Third, it is necessary to
take practical measures to restore mutual confidence and trust and
prepare the ground for a peaceful solution to the problem,” he
concluded.

In turn, the presidential envoy for the resolution of the Nagornyy
Karabakh problem and [deputy foreign minister], Araz Azimov, believes
that OSCE spokesman Richard Murphy’s statement that the Nagornyy
Karabakh leadership is responsible for the illegal settlement serves
political interests. He believes that [the OSCE] co-chairmen are
behind this statement and it is illogical.

“Nagornyy Karabakh is an Azerbaijani territory. However, Robert
Kocharyan, who led separatism in Karabakh, is Armenia’s president now,
and Serzh Sarkisyan, who used to live in Nagornyy Karabakh, is
Armenia’s defence minister now,” he said. Based on these facts, Azimov
said that the Nagornyy Karabakh separatists act hand in hand with
Armenia. “All their moves directly depend on official Yerevan’s will,”
he concluded.

Armenia Reports Arrest in Smuggling Case

AP Online
Mar 18, 2005

Armenian police have made arrests in connection with an alleged plot
uncovered by U.S. authorities to smuggle Russian military weapons into
the United States, a security official said Thursday.

Security officials would not say how many people had been arrested in
Armenia, or even when the arrests took place. But Grach Arutyunian,
first deputy of the National Security Service, said one of the
suspects in the United States, Artur Solomonyan, has lived in America
since he became an exchange student in 1998.

The security service said Wednesday that Solomonyan has been wanted by
police in Armenia since 2001 on suspicion of avoiding military
service.

Earlier this week, U.S. authorities announced they had charged 18
people in the scheme. The arrests resulted from a yearlong
investigation in which an FBI informant posed as an arms buyer who
claimed to have ties to al-Qaida.

The informant, an explosives expert, contacted the FBI after he was
approached by a man who said he had access to weapons from the former
Soviet Union and believed the informant could find a willing buyer,
federal prosecutors said.

Using a digital camera, members of the ring, which included Armenians
and South Africans, provided pictures of the weapons they said they
had available for sale, prosecutors said.

The pictures, apparently taken somewhere in Armenia, showed anti-tank
missiles, a Russian missile launcher and an anti-tank rifle, among
other weapons, officials said.

According to a criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court in
Manhattan, the informant met two of the defendants, Artur Solomonyan
and Christiaan Dewet Spies, on several occasions in New York to
discuss the weapons deals.

Solomonyan, an Armenian citizen living in New York and Los Angeles,
and Spies, a South African citizen living in New York, were arrested
Monday night at a Manhattan hotel after meeting one last time with the
informant to finalize their plans before leaving the country to obtain
the weapons, prosecutors alleged.

TV reports on conflict in multiethnic Georgian region

Rustavi-2 TV, Tbilisi
18 Mar 20

An attack on an ethnic Greek couple in the multiethnic Tsalka District
in southern Georgia has led to a conflict between Georgians relocated
from Ajaria and ethnic Armenians and Greeks, who are said to be
against the resettlement of Ajarians in Tsalka. Several people are
reported injured and a local school has been raided. The following is
the text of a report by Georgian TV station Rustavi-2 on 18 March:

[Presenter Nino Shubladze] There is disorder in [the southern Georgian
district of] Tsalka again. Avralo [village] locals have gathered
outside the police station, demanding that the people who have
assaulted and robbed an ethnic Greek family be arrested. Parents say
their children will stay at home away from school until the situation
goes back to normal. Residents also demand that additional police
units be deployed in the district. [Video shows people arguing]

A conflict between Georgians relocated from Ajaria and ethnic
Armenians and Greeks started after an assault on a Greek
family. Several people were injured in an ensuing attack on
Ajarians. A special-purpose unit has been deployed in Tsalka.

[Correspondent] Fourteen people were slightly injured in an attack in
the Tsalka District village of Avralo. Ethnic Armenians, Greeks and
Georgians are among the victims. According to eyewitnesses, no
firearms were used.

[Davit Gvianidze, captioned as victim, interviewed in bed] We were
working in the village when some 30-40 men attacked us, merely because
we are Georgians.

[Question] Why did they do this?

[Gvianidze] I do not know why. They say a Greek person was wounded, or
robbed or something. Apparently they did this to us because of that
incident.

[Rati Kharshiladze, captioned as victim] There were about 20-30
people, approaching us from behind. I could not see what was
happening. They hit me from behind.

[Question] What did they hit you with?

[Kharshiladze] First they hit me with a hand, then with metal objects.

[Correspondent] Ajarians were attacked after an elderly Greek couple
were assaulted. The Kaloelov family were robbed of money and gold late
at night, the day before yesterday. Both the husband and the wife say
that the attackers were Ajarians.

[Elizaveta Kaloelova, victim, interviewed in bed, in Russian] They
were demanding money, dollars and gold. I told them I didn’t have
any. Then he took a knife and threatened to cut my ear.

[Correspondent] A special-purpose unit has been deployed in Tsalka
District and a criminal case has been opened, but no-one has been
arrested so far.

Both Georgians and Greeks demand that the authorities deal with crime.
Armenians and Greeks say that the Ajarians infringe on their rights,
while Georgians say that Greeks and Armenians are against the
resettlement of Georgians in the district.

[Presenter] Avralo locals have taken to the streets following the
incident yesterday. Nana Lezhava is in Tsalka. She is talking to us
live.

Nana, what are the people’s demands?

[Lezhava] Nino, I must say that there are several different
demands. Ethnic Armenians and Greeks, as well as Georgians resettled
from Ajaria, have gathered in the village centre. They have different
demands.

I should say that Avralo used to be a Greek village until the
resettlement of Georgians from Ajaria. There is an Armenian village
next door. The Armenians stood up for the assaulted Greek family. They
came to the village and demanded that one of the suspects, who has
been arrested, be lynched. Needless to say, police refused to satisfy
this demand.

A conflict followed. We spoke to both sides. The Georgians say that
there was an attack on Georgians in the street and an attack on a
school. They say that they can’t let their children go back to
school. We visited the school. It clearly had been raided. Some of the
Armenians and Greeks gathered here do not approve of what was done to
the school. As regards their demands, they say that the crime
situation in the village must be improved. They do not intend to go
home until the guilty are punished.

This is what we have heard from the people.

[Merab Khutsishvili, teacher] The teaching process has been
disrupted. I am a deputy head teacher and, as far as I know, parents
will not let their children go back to school until there is order
there.

[Iasha Toldikovi, in Russian] My shop has been looted and my house has
been robbed. They took everything. No-one has been held
responsible. One has to have at least a shred of decency. We are tired
of this. What was done to the school was not right. I am against that.

[Mikheil Tskitishvili, captioned as head of Tsalka District
administration] I want to organize a meeting between these two
villages, between the Greeks, the Armenians and the Georgians, both
local and resettled, and I want to make them friends and have them
promise each other that they will be good neighbours and friends to
each other.

If there is a problem it will be resolved by the authorities not a
group of people.

[Lezhava] I might say that the conflict is not due to one incident
alone. Off the record, the Armenians and Greeks say that they are
against the relocation of people from Ajaria, saying that they have
taken over Greeks’ houses without paying any money. They also were
critical of the local authorities, saying that the officials only
listen to people relocated from Ajaria, ignoring their views.

Nevertheless, I can’t say that the situation is very tense. The people
are simply waiting to see what happens next.

Nino, over to you.

[Presenter] Nana, thank you very much. Nana Lezhava was speaking live
about the conflict in Tsalka District.

Profile of Ukraine’s Kharkiv Region governor Arsen Avakov

Source: BBC Monitoring research
18 Mar 05

Kharkiv governor Arsen Avakov has come to politics from big
business. His interests in Kharkiv Region range from mass media to
banking, but he is not closely linked to any “oligarchic”
group. Avakov actively participated in the 2004 presidential election
campaign on the side of Viktor Yushchenko. He is reportedly on
friendly terms with the family of Yushchenko’s older brother, Petro,
who was a Kharkiv-based businessman before his election to
parliament. Avakov also has been an ally of Kharkiv Mayor Volodymyr
Shumilkin and a political rival of former Kharkiv governor Yevhen
Kushnaryov.

Arsen Avakov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 2 January 1964, into an
ethnic Armenian family. After graduating from the Kharkiv Polytechnic
Institute in 1988 with the diploma of an engineer, Avakov briefly
worked at a local research institute specialized in water resources
protection.

Avakov’s business career began during Gorbachev’s perestroika. In 1990
he founded Investor – one of Ukraine’s first open joint-stock
companies. In 1992 he founded the Bazis bank in Kharkiv. Since then
Avakov has acquired stakes in numerous local companies. The Ukrainian
media link Avakov to the Kharkiv heating and power station No 3, a tea
packing factory (Ahmad Tea), the Metalist football club, a big local
bakery, the TV channels Tonis, 7 Kanal and ATN, as well as several
local newspapers and FM radio stations.

Avakov entered the world of politics in 2002, when he was elected to
the Kharkiv city executive council. During the 2004 presidential
election campaign Avakov was deputy chairman of Yushchenko’s Kharkiv
regional election headquarters and first deputy head of the local
National Salvation Committee. The 7 Kanal television rebroadcast the
Kiev-based pro-Yushchenko 5 Kanal TV in Kharkiv, despite pressure.

On 4 February 2005 Yushchenko appointed Avakov Kharkiv Region
governor. On the same day Avakov stepped down as supervisory board
chairman of Investor and Bazis, taking heed of Yushchenko’s promise to
separate state administration from private business. “I have joined
the government not to improve my business or lobby personal interests,
but to realize my ideals,” the Zerkalo Nedeli weekly quoted him as
saying.

Avakov’s first order in the new position was for the local police to
fight corruption and illegal business, according to the Versii web
site. Avakov also promised to create 50,000 new jobs by the end of
2005 and to revive the local machine-building industry.

Avakov is married, with one son. He likes to read science fiction, and
he sponsored the international science fiction festival Star Bridge.

Armenia asks OSCE to set up new factfinding mission

Arminfo
17 Mar 05

YEREVAN

At the request of the Nagornyy Karabakh authorities, Armenia has asked
the OSCE Permanent Council to discuss the issue of setting up a new
factfinding mission for an impartial assessment of the situation in
the districts which were densely populated by Armenians in the past
and are now under Azerbaijan’s control – northern Mardakert, eastern
Martini of Nagornyy Karabakh and Shaumyan District, the Armenian
Foreign Ministry says in a statement issued in connection with today’s
OSCE report on the territories controlled by the Nagornyy Karabakh
Republic [NKR].

The Armenian Foreign Ministry also pointed out in the statement that
according to the UN Economic and Social Council’s committee on
economic, social and cultural rights: “The committee expresses its
concern over the illegal seizure by refugees and internally displaced
persons of the property that belonged to the Armenians and other
ethnic minorities.”

Karabakh army capable of ensuring security on front line – NKR minister

Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
17 Mar 05

[Presenter] An OSCE mission held a monitoring today near the
Azerbaijani village of Seysulan [occupied village in Tartar
District]. We obtained information from Artsakh [Nagornyy Karabakh]
that no incidents or truce violations were registered during the
monitoring.

An incident [truce violations] near Seysulan on 7-9 March resulted in
casualties because of the Azerbaijani side’s fault, the Nagornyy
Karabakh Foreign Ministry has confirmed.

Today the Nagornyy Karabakh Defence Ministry submitted a report to the
OSCE mission which said that the Azerbaijani armed forces had opened
fire on the Karabakh troops to get its positions closer to the
positions of the Nagornyy Karabakh defence army.

[Correspondent, over video of trenches] Mr Minister, the news
disseminated recently by media outlets and various official statements
prove that the situation on the contact line is not so quite and at
the same time these news contradict each other. What is going on in
reality?

[Nagornyy Karabakh Defence Minister Lt-Gen Seyran Oganyan, captioned,
shown in trench] True, today the situation on the contact line with
the Azerbaijani Republic is tense. The Azerbaijani side continues
firing our positions. It should be noted that trying to get their
positions closer to the positions of the Karabakh defence army, they
are creating a tough situation on the contact line.

In reality, the tension is being created by the Azerbaijani armed
forces. The Karabakh defence army is taking appropriate measures aimed
at ensuring security. The army’s and units’ combat readiness today is
on the highest level. If there is a need, today we can fulfil our task
to ensure security of our people.

Armenian paper warns Karabakh leader against yielding to Moscow’s pressure

Haykakan Zhamanak, Yerevan
17 Mar 05

Text of Arman Karapetyan’s report by Armenian newspaper Haykakan
Zhamanak on 17 March headlined “Stepanakert under Russian pressure”

The recent statement made in Moscow by Abkhaz President Sergey Bagapsh
that it will become known in the next few days where and when the
presidents of the self-proclaimed republics of Abkhazia, South
Ossetia, Transdniestria and Nagornyy Karabakh will meet has caused
anxiety among some circles in Armenia and the Nagornyy Karabakh
Republic [NKR].

The point is that NKR President Arkadiy Gukasyan is in Moscow at the
moment in order to discuss the aforesaid issue. The presidents of
South Ossetia and Transdniestria may also be there, which means that
the presidents may have already met. However, for fear of being
labelled as a force fanning the flames of the conflict, Moscow does
not want to make it officially known that it has arranged such a
meeting. And so Armenia and the NKR are afraid that Gukasyan may yield
to Russian pressure and agree to take part in such a meeting and what
is even worse, may agree to host it in Stepanakert. The point is that
for many years already, Moscow has been trying to organize such a
meeting not somewhere else, but in Stepanakert.

The first reason is that as a state, the NKR is the most successful
among the four regions. Second, the NKR army has managed to take
control of several Azerbaijani districts, which has created some sort
of aura around it. On the other hand, unlike the other three, the NKR
has avoided having the image of Russia’s puppet, which does not please
Moscow, of course. So by assembling its puppets in Stepanakert, Russia
will get the legitimate role of a post-Soviet conflict manager and
will create a format allowing it to have a single tool to control the
conflicts.

However, what is good for Moscow is not acceptable for the Armenian
side. First of all, the Armenian side has always stated that it is
against drawing parallels between the four conflicts saying that each
conflict has its own peculiarities and history and should be given a
special solution. If the NKR joins the above format, it will therefore
admit that the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict is similar to the conflicts
in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestria, which will make our
difficult state even more difficult. Besides that, the Nagornyy
Karabakh conflict is given probably the most serious international
negotiating format by the USA, Russia and France, which are directly
involved in this process.

So if the NKR joins Moscow’s “self-proclaimed” format, it will be a
slap in the face of the other two OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and the
[OSCE Minsk Group] format in general. This would play into the hands
of Azerbaijan which never misses a chance to accuse the OSCE Minsk
Group of inefficiency. Inefficiency is not, however, the real
point. The real point is that the other post-Soviet conflicts whose
formats, as we have already said, are inferior to the format of the
OSCE Minsk Group, are regarded by the international community as an
internal affair of a state: the conflicts in Abkhazia and South
Ossetia are internal problems of Georgia and Transdniestria of
Moldova. This is not the case with the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict,
which is still regarded as an international problem. But there is a
big danger that it will stop being an international problem.

Hence, the aggravation of the NKR’s relations with the especially
attentive international community would help Azerbaijan put the
Nagornyy Karabakh conflict on the same level as the other three
conflicts, which is unacceptable and would mean a setback for the
1988-1989 situation. This is the problem Arkadiy Gukasyan is now
facing in Moscow. Of course, logic says that he should not accede to
Moscow’s proposal, but as far as we know, the Russian Foreign Ministry
is exerting huge pressure both on Armenia and the NKR.

Some even say that this will be a precondition for Vladimir Putin’s
visit to Armenia. In this light, it seems that Armenia might have been
used by Gukasyan as the first target for pressure. This may keep
Armenia away from the puppet format. One cannot say for sure yet if
Armenia is succeeding in doing so. This does not, however, make
Gukasyan’s role less important – for at least formally he has the
right to have a final say on the matter.

Official says weapons smuggled into USA not from Armenia – web site

A1+ web site
18 Mar 05

“We know that a 18-strong gang led by our compatriot has been
arrested,” the deputy head of the Armenian National Security Service
[Grachya Arutyunyan] has said. He was commenting on the arrest of the
Armenian-led group involved in the illegal weapons smuggling into the
USA.

Arutyunyan said that [Armenian national] Artur Solomonyan and his
brother had been detained. The two brothers left Armenia, one in 1998
and other in 2000. The students of the Academy of Agriculture left
for the USA on an exchange programme and never returned.

To recap, both of them have been wanted by police since 2001 for
dodging military service.

Arutyunyan also said that the discovered weapons had not been brought
from Armenia.

Azerbaijan violating truce to influence peace talks – Armenian aide

Aravot, Yerevan
18 Mar 05

Armenia’s main priority is to ensure strict security guarantees for
the Nagornyy Karabakh people and the recognition of the region’s
independence and self-determination, Armenian presidential adviser
Garnik Isagulyan has said. Nagornyy Karabakh is an independent state
that must be taken into account, he said. Touching on the recent
cease-fire violations on the Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line,
Isagulyan stressed that in order to change the format of the OSCE
Minsk Group and force the Minsk Group to conduct a different policy
with respect to Nagornyy Karabakh, the Azerbaijani party is trying to
show that the situation in the region is unstable and that a
resumption of military actions is possible. He urged Azerbaijan to put
an end to the firefights on the front line. At the same time,
Isagulyan said that the Armenian forces are ready to give an
appropriate response to each attack from the Azerbaijani side. The
following is the text of Margarit Yesayan’s report by Armenian
newspaper Aravot on 18 March headlined “We will defend our
motherland”. Subheadings have been inserted editorially:

Garnik Isagulyan, advisor to the Armenian president, comments on the
cease-fire violations on the contact line between Azerbaijan and the
Nagornyy Karabakh Republic [NKR].

We are ready to defend the country

[Aravot correspondent] Cease-fire violations have lately become
frequent. What impact can such a situation have on the peaceful
settlement of the Karabakh conflict?

[Garnik Isagulyan] It should be noted that no cease-fire violations
from the Armenian party have been registered. As for the Azerbaijani
party, unfortunately, they, including [Azerbaijani President] Ilham
Aliyev, have lately made statements that if the peace talks do not
progress as Azerbaijan expects, that country may start military
actions. It is clear that these fine-sounding statements do not
coincide with today’s balance of forces. Azerbaijanis are well aware
that the balance of forces is not in their favour. Since the beginning
of March up till now, provocations from the Azerbaijani party have
been continuing. Unfortunately, there were casualties and deaths on
both sides. It is great sorrow, each soldier is dear to us. On the
other hand, the country’s defence is at stake, and we are ready for
this. Our forces gave an appropriate response to each attack from the
Azerbaijani party and did not cede a single inch of our territory.

[Correspondent] So, what is the explanation for these calls and acts?

[Isagulyan] We are confident enough that being well aware that all the
options for solving the problem proposed within the framework of the
OSCE Minsk Group lead to Nagornyy Karabakh’s de facto independence,
and it is impossible to neglect this independence, the Azerbaijani
authorities resort to these acts in order to change the process of
solving the problem.

Hostilities doomed to failure

[Correspondent] Nevertheless, firefights occur on the border, there
are people wounded and killed. Can it mean that military actions have
resumed on the border?

[Isagulyan] No, as we are sure that all this is doomed to failure.
Unfortunately, all provocations happen mainly in the Agdam
direction. The Azerbaijani party has probably launched reconnaissance
activities, but we’d urge them to stop them for the time being as a
mission has visited the liberated territories at their own request and
serious reports on this issue are expected soon. If they are informed
of the initial version of these reports and know that they are not in
their favour and if they have understood that all their acts in the
international arena are failing, it does not allow them to resume
military actions in that region. Maybe, in order to change the format
of the OSCE Minsk Group and force the Minsk Group to conduct a
different policy with respect to Nagornyy Karabakh, the Azerbaijani
party is trying to show that the situation in the region is unstable
and that a resumption of military actions is possible.

[Correspondent] However, it is evident that the negotiations have
failed due to the efforts of the Armenian party as well. Does it mean
that a resumption of military actions is in favour of both parties’
authorities?

[Isagulyan] I can say that the Armenian party has not set itself a
task to disrupt any process. We have always been ready for
negotiations at any level and if Azerbaijan sees any problems in the
negotiating process, it is their own problem.

Karabakh’s independence is a priority

[Correspondent] If the military actions on the border intensify, what
steps will the Armenian party take?

[Isagulyan] The position of the Armenian party is well-known – to
establish Nagornyy Karabakh’s right to self-determination. It is a
fact that Nagornyy Karabakh has never been part of Azerbaijan. This
has been made clear. [Unclear sentence omitted]

[Correspondent] If the military actions resume, will it mean that the
negotiations held by [Armenian President] Robert Kocharyan since 1998
have been senseless and fruitless? That’s to say we shall return to
1998.

[Isagulyan] I would not say so, as the policy I have spoken about has
been conducted since 1998, i.e. Nagornyy Karabakh is an independent
state that must be taken into account. Since 1998, the Armenian
authorities have not brought the negotiating process into deadlock,
they have not attempted to neglect them or avoid participating in
them. We have no right to ignore the situation that existed before
1994. And I do not think that Azerbaijan or the international
community are right in demanding unilateral compromises from
Armenia. The Armenian authorities will not agree to such compromises
without strict security guarantees for the Karabakh people and the
recognition of Karabakh’s independence and self-determination. I
repeat that Karabakh has never been part of Azerbaijan and this will
be the main line of our policy.

ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARY FEDERATION DEFENDING HIMSELF FROM GACHECHILADZE

A1+
18-03-2005

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Bureau issued a press
release on March 18 in regard with some statements made by Georgi
Gachechiladze, advisor to the Georgian president on international
issues, and published in the March 14 issue of the Georgian newspaper
Rao-Rao. The release reads:

1. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation has never sought and does not
seek “Georgia’s destruction through North Caucasus.” The ARF is
seeking the protection of the Javakhk Armenians’ rights within
Georgia. Such statements of the Georgian president’s advisor may only
sow disturbance in the Caucasus.

2. On the eve of the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the
Georgian president’s advisor is insults the memory of the Genocide
victims, accusing them of becoming a blind tool in the hands of
others. Actually, he is repeating the official position of
Turkey. Such unpardonable stance of the Georgian president’s advisor
is unfitted to the position he holds.

3. The Georgian presidential advisor’s threats directed at the Javakhk
Armenians prompt that the attempts to initiate disruption in Javakhk
are aimed at justifying those very threats. The Georgian presidential
advisor’s intimidating tone is no good for a country that claims to be
a democracy champion; it resembles the style of dictators speaking to
their subjects in tyrannies.

4. The level of the Georgian presidential advisor’s ignorance may be
low enough to call a Yeltsin aide an ARF member, but it should not be
as low as to overlook the real problems in Javakhk.

5. The ARF is ready to assist the Georgian authorities in protecting
the political and civil rights of the Javakhk Armenians as well as
resolving their socio-economic problems if the Georgian authorities
take such steps. Georgian authorities’ continuing discriminatory
policy towards the Javakhk Armenians will not result in favorable
consequences.