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    Aravot: Azerbaijan exercises great economic influence on Georgia

    11:01 * 02.08.14


    The paper has talked to Arsen Kharatyan, an Armenian civic activist
    who moved to Georgia for a five-year residence earlier this year.

    Below is an excerpt from the report in which the activist shared his
    views on the Georgia-Azerbaijan relations and Azerbaijan's economic
    influence on the country.


    As an especially important issue, Arsen Kharatyan emphasized Georgia's
    unproportionate economic dependence on Turkey and Azerbaijan, a
    situation which the expert said would make any tension or increased
    tension in the Armenia-Georgia relations more than improvident and
    disadvantageous for both the Georgian-Armenians and the Republic of
    Armenia. "This is my opinion. I just want to bring one example: when
    the re-opening of the Abkhazian railway was under discussion - and
    Ivanishvili addressed the issue in Yerevan - several [branches of the
    oil company] Sokar began closing down here. Azerbaijan later imposed
    an import tax on cars produced before 2004, whereas cars sold to
    Azerbaijan account for 25 percent of Georgia's Gross Domestic Product...
    I don't know to what extent all those things are interconnected, but
    one thing is definitely obvious: Azerbaijan's economic influence on
    Georgia reaches such large scales that the country maintains economic
    levers over Georgia.

    "From that point of view, I think, the right thing for the
    Georgian-Armenian relations would be to rely on the traditionally
    established warm ties, instead of succumbing to the tensions or
    deepening them. Yes, there are scores of problems which nobody denies,
    but why not remember and concentrate on the positive?" the paper
    quotes the activist as saying.


    http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/08/02/aravot3/

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