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ARMENIA SHOULD GAUGE ECONOMIC EFFECT FROM RESUMPTION OF RAILWAY COMMUNICATION THROUGH ABKHAZIA
YEREVAN, October 23. /ARKA/. Armenia should gauge economic advantages
fr om resumption of railway communication through Abkhazia, Johnny
Melikyan, an expert in Georgian affairs, told ARKA News Agency on
Wednesday.
"Our country should figure out what economic advantages Georgia,
Abkhazia and Russia will have from this railway communication and
show that this will be beneficial to all the parties," he said.
He said Armenian authorities should use the international floors,
including intergovernmental commissions' sessions, for that.
In his opinion, progress is expected to be reached here after Georgia's
presidential election (October 27) and formation of a new Cabinet in
the beginning of the next year.
In particular, Melikyan thinks that Tbilisi's close ties with Baku
and Ankara would prompt Georgia's new authorities to establish balance
by deepening relations with Yerevan and Moscow.
Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said in Yerevan, wh ere he
traveled in January 2013, that resumption of the railway communication
through Abkhazia that had been ceased because of armed conflict between
Georgia and Abkhazia in 1992 and 1993 may be possible after settling
some disputable matters with Russia.
The resumption would be very important to Armenia, since the country
remains blockaded. It is Armenia's cheapest and shortest way to
Russia. ---0----
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YEREVAN, October 23. /ARKA/. Armenia should gauge economic advantages
fr om resumption of railway communication through Abkhazia, Johnny
Melikyan, an expert in Georgian affairs, told ARKA News Agency on
Wednesday.
"Our country should figure out what economic advantages Georgia,
Abkhazia and Russia will have from this railway communication and
show that this will be beneficial to all the parties," he said.
He said Armenian authorities should use the international floors,
including intergovernmental commissions' sessions, for that.
In his opinion, progress is expected to be reached here after Georgia's
presidential election (October 27) and formation of a new Cabinet in
the beginning of the next year.
In particular, Melikyan thinks that Tbilisi's close ties with Baku
and Ankara would prompt Georgia's new authorities to establish balance
by deepening relations with Yerevan and Moscow.
Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said in Yerevan, wh ere he
traveled in January 2013, that resumption of the railway communication
through Abkhazia that had been ceased because of armed conflict between
Georgia and Abkhazia in 1992 and 1993 may be possible after settling
some disputable matters with Russia.
The resumption would be very important to Armenia, since the country
remains blockaded. It is Armenia's cheapest and shortest way to
Russia. ---0----
- See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/economy/armenia_should_gauge_economic_effect_from_resumpti on_of_railway_communication_through_abkhazia/#sthash.pgGTsYa6.dpuf