ArmInfo. The statements made by Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili regarding Lori's ownership are views as a retaliatory action against the Javakheti Armenians for their loss in the elections. This is the opinion expressed by Vahe Sargsyan, the editor-in-chief of the Erkir.am website, in response to the Georgian President's claim that Armenian Lori "actually belongs to Georgia.
Sargsyan mentioned that the issue of the ownership of historical Lori (Tashir-Dzoraget Kingdom) has always been a sensitive topic in Armenian-Georgian relations and there is nothing new about it. "The discussion focused on relations between Armenia and Georgia, rather than the Republic of Armenia and Georgia. In other words, the topic fell under the purview of Armenian and Georgian historians, religious and church circles, socio-political figures, and cultural figures. Georgians consistently claimed that Lori (in their terminology, Lore) belonged to them, and Stalin, at the beginning of the plenary session of the Caucasus Bureau in 1921, treacherously ceded it to the Armenian SSR. The Armenian perspective, however, is quite the opposite: Lori (the kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget) was Armenian and belonged to the Armenians," he noted. Meanwhile, the Dashnaktsakan questioned why the President of Georgia suddenly shifted from being a president to promoting a tourist company and at the same time "reopening old wounds" (as stated by the Ambassador of the First Republic of Armenia to Georgia Arshak Jamalyan)?
"The President of Georgia highlights various historical and architectural monuments that are significant examples of Chalcedonian culture, and states with trepidation: "Historical Georgia!!! A unique culture, unfortunately, left in Lora. Let's remember how far we were, let's respect the eternal, mysterious, great Georgia."", Sargsyan mentioned the content of Zurabishvili's recording. In this vein, he added that "the goal of the opposition president of Georgia, who is a puppet of the West, is quite obvious."
Dashnaktsakan is certain that in this way Zurabashvili, firstly, is seeking revenge on the Armenian people for the shameful defeat suffered in the Javakhk regions, as well as for the congratulations extended by the RA authorities to the newly elected government of Georgia. Secondly, he believes, she is trying to turn the Armenian-Georgian "old wounds" into an official topic of dispute between Armenia and Georgia. Sargsyan is sure that, not satisfied with attempts to provoke tension and confrontation within Georgia, Zurabishvili is trying just as unsuccessfully to "export" this tension into interstate relations between Armenia and Georgia.
"To prevent the above, it is important to view the aforementioned statement as a petty dirty trick of an adventurer in the position of President of Georgia, representing nothing significant. Just the swan song of a person coordinating a network of Western agents," the Dashnaktsakan concluded. Earlier, the President of Georgia called the falsifications in the parliamentary elections of the country "an Armenian carousel".
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