TertAm Georgia may sink into isolation if it recognizes the Armenian Genocide, says a Georgian expert.

Speaking to Tert.am, Director of the Georgian Center for Strategic Research Mamuka Areshidze said that If Georgia recognizes the Armenian Genocide, it will find itself in political isolation, "losing strategic partners like Turkey and Azerbaijan."

It comes after the Georgian parliament passed a resolution on recognizing the 1763-1864 massacres of Circassians as Genocide. The move made Georgia the first country to recognize the 'Circassian Genocide' by the Tsarist Russia.

Asked why Georgia decided to recognize the "Circassian Genocide" now, Areshidze said: "Since 2008, the Georgian leadership spanned its regioal policy to the South Caucasus."

The expert considered the move as retaliation to Russia.

"On the other hand," he added, "it came as an attemt to evaluate the 19th century developments in North Caucasus, an issue that had long been hanging in the air, with the Russian leadership unwilling to notice that."

Areshidze said he doesn not support the initiative to recognize the "Circassian Genocide", given particularly, the fact that the country has not acknowledged the Armenian Genocide.

"As an expert on the Caucasian issues, I find that the Circassian issue should have been put to discussion and politically considered. But making a political assessement is fraught with difficulties as much as the Armenian Cause is concerned," he added.