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    Civil Georgia, Georgia
    Nov. 4, 2004

    Russian Railway Chief Proposes Alternative Transportation Routes for
    Armenia

    Chief of the state-run Russian Railway Company Gennady Fadeev said
    while visiting Armenia's capital, Yerevan on October 3, that the
    railway route linking Russia with Armenia via Georgia can be put into
    operation within a year.

    `In terms of financial and technical possibilities, the transport
    corridor Sochi-Sokhumi-Tbilisi-Yerevan may be resumed within a year,'
    RIA Novosti news agency quoted Fadeev as saying.

    However, he added that `questions prevail over answers in this regard.'

    He stressed the prospect of increasing the volume of Armenian-Russian
    freight transportation through railway ferries.

    `The fact that Russian freights are moving to Armenia through the
    Ukrainian and Georgian ports of Ilichevsk and Poti, respectively, is
    nonsense,' Fadeev said.

    He said it is quite possible to open a ferry route between the Russian
    port of Kavkaz and the Georgian port of Poti, which will be three times
    cheaper than the current route via the Ukrainian port. Fadeev also
    added that `the opinion of the Georgian side is very important in this
    regard.'

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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