Akhalkalak's Armenians provoked new aggravation in opposing the President and the Prime Minister of Georgia

Armenians living in Georgia demanded the country's authorities to immediately ratify the European Charter of regional languages. This triggered a new aggravation in opposing President Mikheil Saakashvili and Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. The President said that the ratification of the Charter is threat to national security and accused opponents of pandering to Armenian nationalism, Georgia online reports.

Call for the ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority sounded in Akhalkalak of Samtskhe-Javakheti region, populated mainly by Armenians. The head of the local parliament Hamlet Movsesian said: "We insist on that the Parliament should finally ratify the European Charter, to which Georgia joined in 1999." He acknowledged that the initiative belongs to members of the ruling coalition "Georgian Dream" of premiere Bidzina Ivanishvili.

The government remindes that the incumbent President was the initiator to join the Charter. "In 1999, Saakashvili, as head of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs, irresponsible lobbied to ratify the document," State Minister for Reintegration Zakareishvili stated.

"He wanted to get ahead in this way, Azerbaijan and Armenia so much, that he had not thought about the consequences," the State Minister said. Zakareishvili believes that now the country has no other way but to ratify the charter. "Otherwise, we will not see European integration," he warned.

The leaders of the opposition presidential same "United National Movement" (UNM) advise the authorities "not to get rid of the arrows." "Instead of references to the 1999" Georgian Dream" they should consider their current responsibilities.

"For a country with a lot of foreign policy risks the Charter holds many dangers in terms of national security" David Darchiashvili warned.