Georgia, Tbilisi, April 22 / Trend News N. Kirtzkhalia /

The Congress of Georgia's Azerbaijanis openly applied the Georgian President to restore Sadakhlo fair.

Population of Sadakhlo applies to the Georgian President with a request to restore Sadakhlo fair in the border of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Congress of Georgia's Azerbaijanis chairman Ali Babayev applied the President with this request on behalf of local population and 5,000 jobless people in the house of free thought on April 22.   

Problem of employment causes serious anxiety among population. The government does not have a program of social-economic development of regions, he said. Instead of giving jobs for population, the government leaves 5,000 people without jobs, he said. 

Near-boundary trade has operated since 1995 in Sadakhlo village of Marneuli region near Georgia-Armenia border. Over 5,000 people worked there. Among them local population and refugees from Abkhazia. Social situation sharply deteriorated in the region after closing the fair. Both local agricultural production and imported were sold in the territory of fair," Babayev said.   

"Near-boundary trade center ceased its activity in 2005. The reason was the President's decision about closing of customs check-point Sadakhlo to stop smuggling from Armenia.

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