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    CAUCASIAN COUNTRIES DELIVER ANOTHER BLOW AT RUSSIAN IMPERIALISTS

    Kavkaz Center, Turkey
    Oct 15 2006

    The 8-year-old Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railroad Project moves up in the
    agenda. The reason is that the Armenian lobby in the United States
    has blocked loans to this project in the U.S. Senate. Immediately
    afterwards, the fact that Russia, a neocolonial power and master
    in Armenia, is about to impose an embargo on Georgia, also brings
    another light to the project. This route will be Turkey's cheapest and
    shortest access to Central Asia. Also, Georgia, immersed in economic
    troubles, will become a transit center of the region with the help
    of this railroad, the Turkish English newspaper Daily News reported.

    The Turkish Transportation Ministry sheds light to which phase the
    project is at: "The technical project of the route will be completed
    at the end of 2006. In 2007, a tender will be held. and the estimated
    cost of the project is 0 million."

    The closure of the Turkish-Armenian border in Dogukapý in 1993 has
    brought Kars economy to a standstill. Significant volumes of goods
    were exported to Iraq and Syria through this gate .

    The aim of the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railroad project is to expand
    the trade volume among Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. This route
    will bypass Dogukapý meaning Armenia, the country that has troubles
    with Turkey and Azerbaijan, and end in Akhalkalaki, a small city in
    Georgia's southern region. From Akhalkalaki onwards to Tbilisi, the
    existing railroad route will be connected to the network expanding
    to the entire Caucasus.

    For the Turkish and Azeri sides, this project is not only an economic
    project but each has a political goal attached to it. While both
    countries plan to have access to a huge market of 0 billion, at the
    same time, they consider cornering Armenia on issues such as occupation
    of Nagorno-Karabakh and the alleged "genocide". Also, Georgia plans
    to become a new transit route to the Caucasus just like Armenia.

    Several Kars businessmen insist that the project of the century is
    the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railroad, not the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.

    This project means an alternative route that would give them access
    to the outside world.

    --Boundary_(ID_Se5ZKmqMDC+Bl6Fu+5Kv/Q)--
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