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    GEORGIAN, ARMENIAN PRESIDENTS AGREE REGIONAL MOTORWAY PROJECT

    Kavkas Press
    Sept 30 2008
    Georgia

    Tbilisi, 30 September: Georgia and Armenia will form a consortium
    to work on the construction of a direct road leading from Armenia
    to Ajaria [on Georgia's Black Sea coast]. Armenian President Serzh
    Sargsyan and his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili made this
    announcement today at a joint briefing in Tbilisi.

    "Tbilisi and Yerevan are so close to each other, that we should be
    a continuation of each other. You know how many holidaymakers visit
    Georgia from Armenia in summer - this is why we took the decision to
    build a road that will on the one hand link Armenia and Ajaria and
    on the other hand link Tbilisi with the mountainous part of Ajaria,"
    Saakashvili said.

    He also pointed out that money will be raised abroad in order to
    build the road, which will connect Georgia, Armenia and Turkey and
    in so doing "become a regional project that will make it possible to
    increase the volume of cargo transported by road".

    "This will once and for all bring all the countries of the region
    closer together and serve to develop them all," he said.

    "The project will of course change the economic geography of the
    region. If our consortium raises enough money within two months to
    begin building the road, then this meeting will have been of use,"
    the Georgian president said.

    For his part, Sargsyan stressed that he was "happy about the
    implementation of this project". "This is very important for the
    development of our peoples. Georgia's freedom is important for
    Armenia, as 70 per cent of our foreign trade is done through Georgian
    territory. And many of our brothers and sisters live in Georgia,"
    he said.
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