About 10 thousand people took part a rally in Akhalkalaki (Georgia) on March 13, IA Regnum reports. On the initiative of United Javakhk public union signatures under the request to Mikhail Saakashvili and Georgian parliament to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide of 1915 have been collected. The rally participants also urged to lift the ban on teaching History of Armenia in the Armenian schools of Georgia; to lift the ban on conducting excursions in Armenia for the pupils of the Armenian schools; to adopt a law on national minorities' rights protection and recover the authority on providing administrative services. The ralliers also protested against the withdrawal of Russian military base from Akhalkalaki, since it appears the guarantor of stability and economic welfare of the residents of the region. According to the source, the rally initiators are awaiting the response on the above-mentioned issues till March 31, 2005.