Yerevan Upset over Saakashvili’s Armenia Remarks

President Saakashvili’s statement that Armenia’s “economy has crashed completely” is “groundless” and not in the line with “political correctness,” Samvel Farmanyan, a spokesman for the Armenian President, said on March 10.

“Description provided by the President of Georgia of the Armenia’s economy during opening of an amusement center is groundless. I do not think that making such descriptions is the best option for distracting the attention of his own people from numerous problems existing in Georgia,” Yerevan-based Novosti Armenia news agency quoted Farmanyan’s statement.

He said that Armenian President had been asked number of times to comment on economic situation in neighboring states, but he had never made remarks on these problems “regardless of how attractive” that could have been.

“He always leaves such type of comments up to analysts and political figures of the respective countries. Political correctness requires it,” Farmanyan added.

President Saakashvili said on March 7: “You know that the Armenia’s economy has crashed completely; why? Because Armenia has been totally depended on the Russian market; the Russian market has collapsed and the Armenia’s economy has collapsed too. We are in the region where economies are experiencing difficulties; but Georgia will sustain, Georgia will survive even in the light of difficulties, in case of political stable situation,” he said.

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