YEREVAN, JUNE 18, NOYAN TAPAN. Rather sad situation has been formed currently in Javakhk in educational-cultural, socio-economic and political respect. RA MP Shirak Torosian, Chairman of Javakhk Compatriotic Union, said in his June 18 dispute with Ashot Bleyan, Director of Mkhitar Sebastatsi educational complex. In his words, currently the 150-thousand Armenian community of Javakhk is faced by a number of problems contributing to the process of Armenians' migration. A. Torosian said that the problems accumulated there require immediate solution. Particularly, in S. Torosian's words, Javakhk is faced by the educational problem: school buildings are destroyed, the educational system is collapsed and the steps undertaken by RA government in this direction are insufficient. In A. Bleyan's opinion, the problems of Javakhk should be solved only within the framework of Armenia-Georgia interstate, intergovernmental relations. In his words, Javakhk is one of the colonies of Armenian Diaspora, where the state of Armenia has the right to promote only activity promoting educational and cultural development. "Armenia has no right to intervene into Georgia's political affairs," A. Bleyan noted. In his words, everything possible should be done for Armenian citizens of Georgia to start feeling themselves as citizens of that state, to try living full-value life and to take part in overcoming of difficulties in Javakhk. For this, as A. Bleyan affirmed, the Armenians living in Georgia should learn Georgian as soon as possible. "No state will tolerate its country's citizens' not knowing the state language."

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