Armenians protest against Georgia

About 20 non-governmental Armenian organizations will organize an act of protest in front of the Georgian Embassy in Armenia on February 25. The group will raise the issue of Javakh until the Georgian authorities take their demands into account. Shirak Torosyan, MP and President of the Javakhk Patriotic Union, one of the organizers of the protest, argued that Georgia tries to assimilate the Armenians in Geogria and said "Although emigration is growing, Armenians of Javakhk will not leave and will not assimilate, and the Georgian authorities will once understand this."

Samtskhe-Javakheti (formerly Meskheti ) is a strategically important region in southern Georgia, with Akhaltsikhe as its capital. It is bordered by Georgian provinces to the north and east and Armenia and Turkey to the south. Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline and South Caucasus natural gas pipeline passes through this region. If Georgia loses this region, it could be an end of united and strong Georgia. Therefore Russia has continued to kindle nationalist moods among Armenians of Samtskhe-Javakheti region in order to shatter and weaken Georgia as much as possible. Armenia is the only ally of Russia in the Caucasus.

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