Number of Armenian language lessons reduced in Javakhk

“The Georgian authorities use new methods of repressions to distort the national identity of local Armenian population,” Chairman of the Javakhk Compatriotic Union, Armenian National Assembly member Shirak Torosyan told a press conference.

According to him, a new program was worked out in Tbilisi for Javakhk schools reducing to minimum the number of Armenian language classes in Armenian schools of Javakhk. In his words, the number of Armenian language classes is five fold less than in the Soviet years.

According to Torosyan, the Georgian authorities adopted policy of strengthening the Georgian language, it is natural, but that policy should not be carried out at the expense of eradicating the Armenian language.

“While, we fight for recognition of Armenian as second state language in the region, which comes from international practice, legal norms of rights of national minorities, as well as Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities of Council of Europe, the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous People, as well as any legal document on national minorities,” Mr. Torosyan stressed.