Georgian-Armenian activist Vahagn Chakhalyan reflected on the statements which Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili recently had made against him.  

“The slanderous accusations, which Saakashvili is making against me after my release [from] prison, come to prove yet again that I was imprisoned for solely political considerations, for the fact that I pacifically and lawfully fought for the protection of the rights of the Armenian population of Georgia.    

Saakashvili is attempting to cover up the simple fact that his political course has failed. 

My release was a manifestation of goodwill by the new Georgian authorities but, also, it was greatly due to the continuous calls by the population of Javakhk [Georgian name: Javakheti, is a predominantly-Armenian-populated part of Georgia’s southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province], and the pressure by the international public opinion.     

My attorneys will send likewise this statement by Saakashvili—[and] as additional evidence—to the European Court of Human Rights, where my complaint is examined,” Vahagn Chakhalyan noted in particular.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who spoke on the air of Imedi television, also had reflected on the release of Georgian-Armenian activist Vahagn Chakhalyan.

 “Chakhalyan should not have been released from prison. He destroyed the Georgian university and the Georgian [Church] diocese. He would have left prison in six years,” the Georgian president had said. He also had depicted what would have happened in those six years.  

During this period Javakhk would have become one of the key railway hubs of Europe, the standard of living would have increased 2-3 times, and, “the absolute majority of the population of Javakhk would have spoken Georgian,” Mikheil Saakashvili had said, and asked: “If Chakhalyan was a common criminal, what was he doing in the parliament yesterday?”