May 8, 2003 - 20:47 AMT
RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN 1915 BY GEORGIA A POLITICAL ISSUE, GEORGIAN RELIGIOUS LEADER SAID
The issue of Georgia's recognition of the fact of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 is under the jurisdiction of the country political leadership. As reported by "De Facto" agency, said Patriarch of all Georgia Ilia II, who today visited the Memorial Complex of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey. "Being the pastor of the Georgian people, I am not entitled to give advises on the issue. It is subject to political decision of the temporal authorities," - the Georgian Church head said.