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    RESTORATION OF ABKHAZIA RAILWAYS SECTION TO TAKE FROM 12 TO 18 MONTHS

    Armenpress

    TBILISI, JUNE 16, ARMENPRESS: Vladimir Badalian, an Armenian parliament
    member and a cochairman of the Armenian-Russian and Armenian-Georgian
    Business Associations, told Armenpress a set of documents, which
    are necessary for starting restoration of the Abkhazian section of
    the Georgian railway will be ready by the end of the year and the
    reconstruction will take from 12 to 18 months.

    Badalian said the 197 km-long section of the railroad stretching across
    Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia needs to be fully restored
    together with bridges, tunnels and other infrastructure. Badalian said
    the restoration will comprise two stages-first will be resumed trains
    for transportation of cargo and then restoration of infrastructure
    and stations will begin.

    He said the Armenian-Georgian-Abkhazian-Russian consortium, founded
    for this purpose, will meet in Tbilisi on July 10-15 to specify
    some points, particularly, sources of funding. Badalian said it was
    possible also to resume the operation of an automobile road stretching
    through Abkhazia. He said the road may even start operation before
    the railway resumes.

    By the way three buses with Armenians, relatives of the passengers of
    the plane that fell into the Black Sea on May 3 and reporters traveled
    from Yerevan to the crash site in Russian Sochi for a commemoration
    ceremony through Abkhazia. Badalian said it was a remarkable event,
    as the road opened for the first time for civic passengers.
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