Vahagn Chakhalyan, the Javakhk-based Armenian political and public figures, arrived in Armenia on Tuesday to visit the Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims (Tsitsernakaberd) on Wednesday.
“Our NGOs applied to Georgia’s Parliament for recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Interestingly, Georgian governmental organizations applied even earlier, which means certain progress,” Chakhalyan told journalists.
“Georgia’s new authorities are well aware that it is difficult for them to recognize the Armenian Genocide, with Georgia located between Turkey and Azerbaijan. However, refusing recognition would be a crime as well, what the Saakashvili regime calls it,” Chakhalyan said.
“More than 300,000 Georgians were massacred in the Ottoman Empire, but very few people dare to mention the fact. This is the reason why we cannot accuse Georgians of not dealing with the Armenian Genocide,” Chakhalyan said.
Still, leading Georgian intellectuals are publicly speaking of the Armenian Genocide and Georgian massacres, which is progress.