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    MINISTER VOWS TO FOIL PLANS TO BUILD NEW RAILWAY BYPASSING ARMENIA

    Mediamax news agency
    30 Aug 05

    Yerevan, 30 August: "Georgia and Azerbaijan have no moral right to
    invest in the construction of the Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi railway,"
    Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said in Yerevan today.

    The Armenian foreign minister substantiated official Yerevan's position
    on this project with the fact that "there is the Kars-Gyumri railway,
    and we consider it pointless to invest limited international and
    domestic financial resources in the construction of a new railway".

    Oskanyan recalled that the Kars-Gyumri railway "has not been operating
    solely because of Turkey's wrong policy". "I would like to recall that
    Armenia has expressed its readiness not to use the Kars-Gyumri railway
    at the initial stage but use it only to transport goods between Turkey,
    Georgia and Azerbaijan," Oskanyan said.

    The foreign minister said Armenia would oppose the construction of
    the Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi railway by substantiating its approach
    to the project's international donors, in particular, the European
    Union and the USA. "We have already said that it is impossible to
    threaten us with this and other regional projects," Oskanyan said.

    "Even if the Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi railway is built, Armenia will
    not disappear from the map. On the contrary, we shall continue our
    progressive development," the Armenian foreign minister said.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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