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ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARY FEDERATION DEFENDING HIMSELF FROM GACHECHILADZE

Politics

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.