YEREVAN. – As a result of the past-twenty-year-elections in Georgia, the country’s Armenian MPs and officials have been designated, Sardarapat Movement member Alek Yenigomshyan stated during a press conference on Friday.    

He said those who did not defend Georgian Armenians’ interests were appointed to posts and they silently encouraged the Georgian authorities.

“Georgian Armenians are being subjected to national discrimination and all manifestations of freedom of thought are markedly suppressed. And Armenia’s authorities are inactive, and all responsibility for the developments unrolling in Javakhk falls squarely on them,” he noted.     

Reflecting on Armenian Deputy FM’s statement that relations with Georgia are normalizing, Yenigomshyan noted that this statement solely deserves mockery, since Javakhk is losing its Armenian population.      

“An atmosphere of fear reigns in Javakhk; this is carried under the condition of designated Armenian officials and [official] Yerevan’s apathy,” he remarked.   

In response to the query on the expectations from Georgia’s parliamentary elections to be held on October 1, he stated that the voting must be held democratically. 

“It will be possible to protect the interests of our compatriots solely under democratic conditions, whereas Georgia’s current authorities are still very far from that,” Alek Yenigomshyan concluded.

To note, Javakhk—Georgian name: Javakheti—is a predominantly-Armenian-populated part of Georgia’s southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province.