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Opening of Karabakh airport delayed till September
16:12 - 14.05.11
The newly-built airport in Karabakh will start operations before
September, the head of Karabakh's Civil Aviation Service has said.
Speaking to Tert.am, Dmitry Adbashyan denied his earlier statement in
which he had said that the Stepanakert Airport will be operational in
mid-May.
`It [the opening] has not been delayed but will rather take place at
the scheduled period before September 1 during the summer,' said
Adbashyan.
`I was instructed that there should be no word about the opening until
the construction is over,' he added.
It comes after Armenian and Azerbaijani top officials exchanged
arguments over the opening of the Stepanakert Airport with officials
threatening to `shoot down' planes that will operate at the airport.
According to Dmitry Adbashyan, the construction at the Stepanakert
Airport is still underway. Currently, the engineers work on the
runaway and install the necessary equipments.
He also said that the next consignment of equipments Karabakh will
import from Finland in the coming days. Three planes will serve the
Yerevan-Stepanakert flights, Adbashyan added.
Armenia, in turn, showed a high profile in its response to statements
by the Azerbaijani side. President Serzh Sargsyan said he would be the
first passenger of the first plane to fly from Yerevan to Stepanakert.
"I will be the first passenger of the Yerevan-Stepanakert flight,"
Sargsyan had said. "The population of Nagorno Karabakh has the right
to benefit from air transport services. That's undoubtedly true."
"The modern world has seen numerous such examples. But there is one
but here - such statements have always been made by terrorist
organizations, not states," he said.
Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian
16:12 - 14.05.11
The newly-built airport in Karabakh will start operations before
September, the head of Karabakh's Civil Aviation Service has said.
Speaking to Tert.am, Dmitry Adbashyan denied his earlier statement in
which he had said that the Stepanakert Airport will be operational in
mid-May.
`It [the opening] has not been delayed but will rather take place at
the scheduled period before September 1 during the summer,' said
Adbashyan.
`I was instructed that there should be no word about the opening until
the construction is over,' he added.
It comes after Armenian and Azerbaijani top officials exchanged
arguments over the opening of the Stepanakert Airport with officials
threatening to `shoot down' planes that will operate at the airport.
According to Dmitry Adbashyan, the construction at the Stepanakert
Airport is still underway. Currently, the engineers work on the
runaway and install the necessary equipments.
He also said that the next consignment of equipments Karabakh will
import from Finland in the coming days. Three planes will serve the
Yerevan-Stepanakert flights, Adbashyan added.
Armenia, in turn, showed a high profile in its response to statements
by the Azerbaijani side. President Serzh Sargsyan said he would be the
first passenger of the first plane to fly from Yerevan to Stepanakert.
"I will be the first passenger of the Yerevan-Stepanakert flight,"
Sargsyan had said. "The population of Nagorno Karabakh has the right
to benefit from air transport services. That's undoubtedly true."
"The modern world has seen numerous such examples. But there is one
but here - such statements have always been made by terrorist
organizations, not states," he said.
Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian