Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL ), Auteur . – Voorzitter, in het Russische tsarenrijk was Transkaukasië een van de wingewesten aan de rand, waar de woongebieden van Georgiërs, Armeniërs en Azerbeidzjanen niet scherp waren afgebakend.
Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL ), author (NL) Mr President, in the days when the Russian Tsars ruled, the Transcaucasus was one of the conquered areas on the edge of the Empire, where the territories of Georgians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis were not clearly defined, and where the peoples did not live in peace with one another, but were subjected to the undemocratic rule of the Russian state.