SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETIA ARMENIANS CONGRATULATED NEWLY ELECTED GEORGIAN PRESIDENT

A number of non-governmental organizations of Samtskhe-Javakhetia region of Georgia have addressed a congratulatory message to newly elected president Mikhail Sahakashvili, A-Info agency reported. “An unprecedented participation of the region population at the past presidential election and the votes gathered by you evidence the people pin much home on you and democratization processes in the country on the whole,” the message says. Then the document includes an address of non-governmental organizations of Javakhetia, sent to acting Georgian president Nino Burjanadze on the election eve, expressing confidence that one of the civilized ways leading Georgia out of the crisis is specification of the administrative borders of Samtskhe-Javakhetia region and fixing its autonomous status in the Constitution.