CONFLICT BETWEEN DEPUTIES OF ARMENIAN AND AZERI ORIGIN AT GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT SITTING TODAY

The conflict situation formed between deputies of Armenian and Azeri origin at today’s sitting of the Georgian parliament caused temporary cessation of the legislative body’s activities. The conflict aroused after Armenian deputy Hamlet Movsisian called the parliamentarians to a minute of silence in the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. Azeri deputy Ali Yuzbashev thereupon expressed protest, saying Movsisian should think of Georgia and not of problems of the neighboring country. Before the parliament sitting was adjourned, on the suggestion of speaker Nino Burjanadze deputies revered the memory of the peaceful population of all ethnicity, who innocently died in the Caucasian region and other countries with a minute of silence.