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    THERE IS NO ROAD BACK IN ISSUE OF IMPLEMENTING PROJECT ON CONSTRUCTION OF ARMENIA-IRAN RAILWAY, ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER STATES

    Noyan Tapan
    http://www.nt.am?shownews=1009861
    Nov 19, 2008

    YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian government has made
    a political decision that the construction of an Armenia-Iran railway
    is necessary for Armenia, and the work in this direction has already
    been launched with state budgetary resources. There is no road back in
    the issue of implementing this project, the RA prime minister Tigran
    Sargsyan stated on November 18.

    In his words, the projects including three versions of the railway's
    construction were developed by Armenian research institutes long ago,
    there are preliminary calculations, and the Armenian government has
    conducted all the basic studies. Nevertheless, additional design work
    will be done jointly with experts of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    with ADB's grant money, which will enable to update the indicated
    projects and make calculations related to the use of modern equipment.

    The RA minister of transport and communication Gurgen Sargsyan said
    that out of the three versions of constructing an Armenia-Iran railway,
    the version of a 447-km railway is the preferable one. In case of
    two other versions, the railway will be either 373 km long or 443 km
    long. In case of all the three versions, the railway will be built from
    the border of two countries to Jermuk, and by the preferable version,
    it will pass through Selim mountain pass, Martuni, Gavar and reach
    the operating Gagarin station. By the estimates of the minister,
    the railway's construction will take 5 years.

    According to him, the design of the indicated railway and a parallel
    motorway to be built will be done with a million dollar grant to be
    provided by ADB to Armenia. In the experts' opinion, construction of
    Armenia-Iran railway will cost 1.5-2 billion dollars.
    From: Baghdasarian
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