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    Expert: Armenia can't rely only on Stepantsminda-Lars motorway for
    transporting its cargoes

    YEREVAN, September 2. /ARKA/. Armenia can't rely only on the
    Stepantsminda-Lars motorway for transporting its cargoes, Vazgen
    Safaryan, chairman of the Union of Domestic Commodity Producers, said
    at a news conference on Tuesday.

    The road section near Upper Lars border checkpoint was closed on
    August 20 because of landslides. On August 30, traffic on this section
    resumed.

    "The latest landslide has affected trade turnover between Armenia and
    Russia," Safaryan said. "It is still a good thing that traffic here
    has resumed quickly, but unfortunately, such problems occur
    periodically."

    Before that, Kazbegi-Upper Lars section on Georgian Military Road was
    blocked on May 17 and traffic here ceased for one month leaving
    Armenia without its ground transportation link with Russia.

    Safaryan is convinced that construction of a tunnel may solve the
    problem. "The project of the tunnel construction is not new, but it
    was hampered by two world wars and the Soviet Union's collapse," he
    said.

    The expert pointed out construction of a railway connecting Armenia
    with Russia through Iran and resumption of railway traffic through
    Abkhazia as other solutions to the problem.

    It was reported earlier, that Abkhazia has no objections against this
    prospect, but the idea can be discussed only after recognition of
    Abkhazia's independence. --0----

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    From: A. Papazian
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