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    GEORGIA'S STABILITY EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR ARMENIA
    Hrayr Zoryan Armenpress

    Hayots Ashkhar Daily
    01 Oct 2008
    Armenia

    "We highly appreciate the relations between Armenia and Georgia,
    and we are also very glad to notice lots of opportunities to expand
    our friendship, integrate our economies, and make communications more
    stable," Armenian President Serge Sargsyan announced yesterday during
    his tête-a-tête with Michael Sahakashvily.

    Serge Sargsyan considers the existence of those opportunities
    extremely important and underscored that he attaches great importance
    to stability.

    "I have told you many times that Georgia's stability is extremely
    important for Armenia, so important that we can compare it with
    Armenia's stability. 75% of our foreign commodity circulation passes
    via Georgia; we have hundreds and thousands brothers and sisters in
    Georgia and our activity derives from this circumstance."

    In his turn Sahakashvili underscored that Armenia and Georgia are
    historically close allies, friends and brother states, united not
    only by their joint history but also their prosperous future. "We
    follow all the events that take place in Armenia. We highly appreciate
    Armenia's stance towards Georgian events. We received unprecedented
    assistance from the whole world, lots of countries expressed their
    positive attitude and Armenia supported the idea of the peaceful
    settlement of Georgi an conflict. Our unity is very important, not
    only from the point of view of the authorities but also the people,"
    Georgian president Michael Sahakashvily said and added that people
    usually remember who helped them in their hard times.

    Michael Sahakashvily underscored that ethnic Armenians have a great
    role in Georgia. "We don't make a distinction between our citizens
    in terms of their ethnic origins, but meanwhile we respect their
    culture, identity, because they are part of Georgian culture and
    identity. Naturally we are in close cooperation with them, because
    there should be a dialogue between the cultures."

    He considered the border between Armenia and Georgia a border of
    friendship: "Consequently together with the Armenian President we
    decided to make it transparent," the Georgian President announced
    and informed that next week Georgian Minister of Economy and Finance
    will visit Armenia to discuss those issues. He said the process of
    crossing the border must be very clear.

    "In my view the border between Armenia and Georgia must be like the one
    between Switzerland and France," he underscored and added: "Yerevan
    and Tbilisy are so close that in some sense they are continuation of
    each other, we must try to fill each other's gaps."

    In this regard Sahakashvily attaches great importance to road
    construction.

    He informed that at the moment the road connecting

    Akhalkalak and Ninotsminda with Tbilisy is in the process of
    construction, which will finish in two years. "This road must move to
    the borders of Armenia and Turkey. The whole region must be united
    by qualitative roads. We decided to create a consortium, which will
    be engaged in road construction from Goderz mountain pass to the
    Black Sea."

    --Boundary_(ID_iL+m3rOhr7X4zMb1lgoNSQ) --
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