EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MINORITY ISSUES FORUM HELD IN AKHALKALAKI

PanARMENIAN.Net - The questions of the road system of Javakhk and the draft Law on Education of Georgia are on the agenda of the second forum of the European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI), held in Akhalkalaki December 15. As Chairman of the Department of Motor Roads of Georgia N. Inasaridze assured when addressing the forum, major repairs of the Tbilisi-Tsalka-Akhalkalaki-Turkish border motor road are supposed in 2005. He also pledged that attention would be paid to the restoration of the Akhalkalaki-Akhaltsikhe and Ninotsminda-Armenian border roads. Addressing the forum, residents of Javakhk said they had scruples, specifically about the latter. Seda Melkumian, an ECMI representative, spoke on the issue of the Law on Education. She emphasized that the draft law available exposes all Armenian schools of Georgia to the risk of being closed. The Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Bela Tsipuria tried to assure the participants that such an interpretation of the law had appeared due to an improper translation.