July 28, 2005 - 09:21 AMT
GEORGIAN LEADER DISPLEASED WITH ACCENTUATING HARUTYUNYAN ETHNICITY
At a meeting with officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili criticized mass media and some parties of the country for constantly accentuating Vladimir Harutyunyan's ethnicity. «Ethnicity is of no importance to me. Harutyunyan is Armenian, the widow of the officer killed by him [Zurab Kvlividze] is also Armenian. They are both Georgian citizens,» Mikhail Saakashvili stated. It should be reminded that V. Harutyunyan taken into custody by Georgian law-enforcement bodies is charged for an attempt at US President George Bush's life when the latter was delivering a speech in Tbilisi.