April 13, 2001 - 18:05 AMT
"PROVOCATEURS ARE DRIVING WEDGE BETWEEN GEORGIA AND ARMENIA"
YEREVAN, April 13. /Mediamax/. Head of Defense and Security Committee of Georgian Parliament Georgi Baramidze said "provocateurs are trying to drive a wedge between Georgia and Armenia, exciting separatist and radical elements among Armenian Diaspora".
The Georgian Parliamentarian said this in an interview published today in Russian "Nezavisimaya Gazeta". Baramidze noted that they were trying to assure the Armenian population of Akhalkalak that after taking out the Russian bases Georgia was going to place Turkish forces there. "Everybody in Tbilisi and Moscow understands that this is a nonsense, but such announcements may provoke people to inadequate acts," the Georgian Parliamentarian stressed. --0--