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    NEW ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN ROAD TO BOOST REGIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION

    Hayots Ashkharh
    October 2, 2008 Thursday
    Armenia

    The future road that will connect Armenia to Georgia's region of
    Ajaria via the Armenian-populated Georgian region of Javakheti will
    offer new economic benefits for Armenia and will give Georgia access
    to the Black Sea, alternative to the one that comes through the road
    adjacent to the Georgian-South-Ossetian border.

    In the report entitled "What will the Gyumri-Akhalkalaki-Batumi road
    give?", Vardan Grigoryan writes that the Russian-Georgian war proved
    that the Gori and Khashuri sections of the road leading to the west of
    Georgia and Ajaria and the railroad that runs along those areas are
    not reliable enough because they are too close to the South Ossetian
    border. The author of the report says that a contemporary road leading
    from Javakheti to Ajaria could largely neutralize possible risks
    faced by Armenia and become the second communication route passing
    through Georgia.

    Grigoryan says that plans to build a railroad in the same direction
    existed in the Soviet time, but the Georgian government rejected
    them, and former Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia also rejected
    Armenia's suggestions to build a similar road, because Ajaria did
    not obey the Georgian government at that time. Grigoryan believes
    that due to the changed situation in the region - after loosing South
    Ossetia - Georgia now needs this road because the current road that
    connects its capital Tbilisi to the Black Sea ports passes along the
    Georgian-Ossetian border.

    The new road will allow speedy transportation of Armenian loads
    to the port of Batumi, Grigoryan writes. It will pass through
    Samtskhe-Javakheti region and is called to improve the region's
    economic situation and balance "unilateral Turkish penetrations" into
    Javakheti, the author believes. Grigoryan says that instead of being a
    joint of Turkish-Georgian interests, Ajaria will turn into an important
    link in economic cooperation of the three countries in a while.
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