January 21, 2005 - 19:42 AMT
RUSTAVI 2 PREPARES TELECAST ON JAVAKHK
Journalists of Rustavi 2 Georgian TV Company are preparing a telecast, devoted to the problems of relations between Tbilisi with the Javakhk region. In the opinion of TV Company journalist Nata Koberidze, the ethnic factor adds to these in Javakhetia. Koberidze considers that if people here demand self-determination, some real grounds for that should be present. "In my personal opinion, Akhalkalak residents have such a right to some degree. It is natural that as a proud people it cannot bear violence. If the state cannot solve their problems, they have to rely on their own," she says. In the opinion of the TV journalist, the situation in Javakhk is harder than that in Georgian regions inhabited by Azeris, A-Info news agency reported.