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    Armenian leader favours reopening of railway via Georgia's Abkhazia

    Mediamax news agency
    12 Mar 04

    YEREVAN

    Armenian President Robert Kocharyan spoke in favour of making
    "strenuous efforts" to resume railway communications via Abkhazia.

    Speaking at a briefing in Yerevan today, Robert Kocharyan said that a
    resumption of railway communications via this route was "of benefit to
    everyone - Georgia, Abkhazia, Armenia and Russia", Mediamax news
    agency reports.

    The Armenian president said that in order to tackle this issue, one
    should display the will and overcome the peculiar "custom, when any
    attempt to upset the existing status quo threatens to cause fresh
    internal problems". At the same time, Kocharyan said that Armenia
    understands Georgia's position on this issue.

    President Mikheil Saakashvili said that the resumption of the railway
    communications via the Abkhaz section should take place in parallel
    with the return of Georgian refugees to Abkhazia, particularly to Gali
    District. The Georgian leader said that official Tbilisi was ready for
    "more decisive steps to find a peaceful solution to this conflict and
    to the problem of resuming regional transport communications".
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