Armenia–Georgia relations
bilateral relations between Armenia and Georgia (country)
Foreign relations exist between Armenia and Georgia. Both countries were former Soviet republics of the Soviet Union. Relations between the two were originally tense for a while after their independence, which included multiple occurrences of voting against each other at the United Nations. However in recent years, relations between the two have vastly improved and modern relations are now seen as friendly. Both countries are members of the Council of Europe, the European Political Community, and the EU's Eastern Partnership and Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.
Relations with Georgia are of particular importance for Armenia because under the border blockades imposed against Armenia by Turkey and Azerbaijan due to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Georgia offers Armenia its only land connection with Europe, with access to its Black Sea ports. However, because of Armenia's reliance on Russia and Georgia, both of which fought in the 2008 South Ossetia War and thus severed diplomatic and economic relations, 70% of Armenia's imports entered via Georgia, especially from Russia, which has imposed an economic blockade on Georgia.
The Javakheti region in southern Georgia contains a large Armenian population and although there have been local civic organizations pushing for autonomy, such as United Javakhk, there has been no violence between Armenians and Georgians in the area since the Georgian–Armenian War ended in 1919. Since independence, Georgian clergy have occupied the Armenian churches, and Armenians in Georgia and Armenia have demonstrated against their destruction. On November 28, 2008, Armenian demonstrators in front of the Georgian embassy in Armenia demanded that the Georgian government immediately cease encroachments on the Armenian churches and punish those guilty, calling the Georgian party's actions White genocide.
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