{"id":85231,"date":"2011-04-13T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=85231"},"modified":"2011-04-13T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T08:53:00","slug":"georgias-azeri-population-nothings-changed-since-the-days-of-imperial-russia-and-ussr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/13\/georgias-azeri-population-nothings-changed-since-the-days-of-imperial-russia-and-ussr.html","title":{"rendered":"Georgia&#8217;s Azeri Population: Nothing&#8217;s Changed Since the Days of Imperial Russia and USSR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both during the days of imperial Russia and the Soviet years, and when Georgia became independent, the life of the country&#8217;s Azeri population was never easy, said National Assembly of Azerbaijan (Milli M\u0259clis) deputy Zahid Oruj in an interview with Day.az.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Georgia pursues a policy of discrimination against the country&#8217;s Azeri population and this policy has always received support from all leaders of independent Georgia: Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Eduard Shevardnadze, and current president Mikhail Saakashvili.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The process of discrimination against Georgia&#8217;s Azeri community has not stopped; it&#8217;s just simply become not as obvious,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Oruj stressed that Azerbaijan has the opportunity to assist its diaspora in Georgia; however, this is the Georgian authorities&#8217; problem. &#8220;Ensuring its citizens&#8217; everyday worries and resolving all its problems regardless of ethnic identity is the direct responsibility of the Georgian state and the country&#8217;s leadership. Regretfully, we can&#8217;t say that such concern is noticeable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Azerbaijani MP also criticized the tacit position of international human rights organizations on this issue. In Oruj&#8217;s opinion, their inaction is due to the international community&#8217;s desire to portray Georgia as an &#8220;island of democracy&#8221; in the &#8220;sea&#8221; of the Caucasus.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both during the days of imperial Russia and the Soviet years, and when Georgia became independent, the life of the country&#8217;s Azeri population&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24794,24795,24796,10256,24797],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}