The extremist organisation "Armenian Community of Georgia" continues to harm the state interests of Georgia and violate Georgian legislation by preaching and promoting separatism. Members of this organization held another exhibition propagandizing separatism, before that it held a procession in the centre of Tbilisi in support of separatism and separatists of the so-called "Artsakh" (as Armenian nationalists call Azerbaijani Karabakh) with the demand to "stop the blockade" and "stop genocide" allegedly threatening Karabakh Armenians.

It should be recalled that Azerbaijani eco-activists, who have blocked the way for the illegal export of ore and other natural resources of Karabakh through the Lachin corridor, have no problem allowing humanitarian supplies and food into Armenian-populated areas. The Armenian population of Karabakh is also provided with uninterrupted electricity, natural gas and water.

During another march, extremists of the so-called "Armenian community of Georgia" carried a provocative poster in English "don't support genocide". The poster depicted portraits of the presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

By "genocide" Armenian nationalists mean the liquidation of the so-called "NKR" or "Artsakh, which officially recognized the so-called "independence" of the separatist regimes in Sukhumi and Tskhinvali. Although, the elimination of this ugly separatist entity will allow Karabakh Armenians themselves to start a normal life as full citizens of Azerbaijan.

It is provocative that the leaders of Georgia's friendly states and its main strategic and foreign economic partners - Turkey and Azerbaijan are named as "authors of genocide" and "equated" with Hitler. This in itself is offensive and inadmissible in the centre of the Georgian capital; it is aimed at harming Georgian-Azerbaijani and Georgian-Turkish relations. I.e. such an insult is a direct blow to the interests of Georgia in the first place.

It should be emphasised that, unlike the "Artsakh" separatists and even the Armenian authorities (suffice it to recall the Armenian president's comfortable reception of Abkhaz and Ossetian separatists in Yerevan or the annual refusal to sign a UN resolution for the return of Georgian refugees to Abkhazia), Turkey and Azerbaijan recognise the territorial integrity of Georgia. Turkey and Azerbaijan defend the interests of Georgia and its territorial integrity by all possible means (political, economic, social). By the way, Armenians living in Georgia are reaping full economic benefits from cooperation between Georgia and Turkey and Azerbaijan. If anyone is to be compared with Hitler, it is his henchman and idol of Armenian nationalists Garegin Nzhdeh.

 The "Artsakh" separatists, so defended by the "Armenian community of Georgia", are now under the protection of Russian peacekeepers and do everything to prevent the peaceful integration of Karabakh Armenians into a united Azerbaijan. At the same time, Russian "peacekeepers" have not yet fulfilled their obligations and have not disarmed the illegal separatist gangs. In essence, the Armenian nationalists in Karabakh are trying to repeat the same scheme that once cost Georgia huge casualties and the loss of 20% of its territory - so that Russian "peacekeepers" start fighting for the separatists.

At the same time, Armenian extremists from the "Armenian Community of Georgia" are trying to arouse "pity and sympathy" among Georgians towards the separatists. The same "Armenian community of Georgia" earlier published the following appeal on its Facebook page: "120 thousand people, including children, are freezing in the blockade. There is an acute shortage of food and medicine. Stop another genocide!".

Actually, there are not more than 25-30 thousand Armenians left in Karabakh, and there are not more than 3-5 thousand of them children. But we want to ask provocateurs from the "Armenian community of Georgia", did their compatriots in Abkhazia, namely those who fought in Baghramyan battalion (where there were also militants from the same "Artsakh") in 1993 worry much about the fact that over 300,000 Georgians from Sukhumi and surroundings, expelled by Abkhaz and Armenian militants from their homes and children are freezing and starving in the mountains? Those who failed to escape were ruthlessly killed by Armenian fighters and separatists. Were leaders of the Armenian community of Georgia worried about the fate of Georgians in Abkhazia? Did the "Armenian community of Georgia" even once hold a single event in support of the integrity of Georgia?

It appears that today Georgians, including victims of separatism, refugees and their descendants, by the idea of the "Armenian community of Georgia" should be worried about the separatists, who are not really threatened by anything and who live peacefully in their homes in warmth and prosperity.

You will never find a word of support or sympathy to Georgian refugees, the territorial integrity of Georgia by these extremist organizations! "The Armenian Community of Georgia" and similar organisations have been propagating separatism and extremism among ordinary Armenian citizens of Georgia for years.  These organisations illegally visited Karabakh and other occupied territories of Azerbaijan every year (until 2020). At the expense of friendly relations between the Azerbaijani and Georgian peoples, they ran around the occupied territories of Azerbaijan with the state symbols of Georgia, creating the illusion that Georgians were allegedly doing so. Everyone is well aware that such tricks of these extremists will not bear any fruit.

The separatists not only do not want to hear anything about the return of Azerbaijani refugees to Khankendi, Khojaly (survivors of the actual genocide and their descendants) and other towns and villages of Karabakh, but are so impudent that they easily go to occupied Georgian Abkhazia to look for "apartments" there, where they expelled Georgians. Is it too much for the "long-suffering" separatists and their patrons from the Armenian "fifth column" in Georgia?

George Mazniashvili