Among Circassians Circassian nationalist organizations hailed the event of the conference having occurred at all as a victory. One youth Circassian organization stated that "The Circassian youth of the republic of Adygea received the news about the call by participants in the Tbilisi conference to recognize the genocide of Circassians by Russia with great hope for a positive decision on the part of Georgian lawmakers... The possible recognition of the genocide of our people will become an important step in the process of settling the Circassian question. Today, the problem of the Circassians is making it to the international level and the Russian government authorities will not be able to disregard this issue anymore." However, some less youthful Circassian organizations were less positively disposed to Georgia, because of its conflict with Abkhazia, which has close ethnic ties to Circassia.
In Georgia Since the
2008 South Ossetia war Georgia has notably moved to a sympathetic position towards the peoples of the North Caucasus, including the Circassians. towards not only the Circassians, but other independence-minded groups in the North Caucasus, such as the Chechens and Ingush, having Alla Dudayeva (wife of the deceased first independent Chechen president) as an announcer in its new Russian-language news station- Georgian public broadcasting's "First Caucasus TV" (available at https://web.archive.org/web/20101018211102/http://1k-tv.com/), for example. Three days after the congress, Georgian intellectual Giorgi Kvelashvilli submitted an opinion piece urging Georgians to support recognition of the Circassian genocide and for the government in Tbilisi to pass the bill. (i.e. probably referring to
Operation Lentil, called
Aardax by the Chechens and Ingush; though it could be Tsarist tactics during the wars of the 1800s or the current wars). He also stated that Georgia should make the Chechen position more understood to the West and counter Russian manipulation of information on the Chechens around the world, and that Georgia and Chechnya held a common foe, so they are natural allies. To quote, Moscow claims that the situation in North Caucasus is stable. In contrast to these claims, the West must be objectively informed. The official representatives of Tbilisi in all democratic states should express real information about the events in Chechnya. Today, Georgia is a country whose words are given adequate attention by the West. However, like Chechnya, a part of Georgia is occupied by Russia and the resistance must be unified against the common enemy. A website (currently only in Russian) on the genocides was also put up, available at http://www.chechentragedy.com. Other websites, such as
World Chechnya Day.org were also set up to try to win the sympathy of the West for both historical and modern occurrences. == Sequel conference ==