Armenia hopes Russia won’t close skies to its airlines

TASS
October 1, 2004 Friday

By Tigran Liloyan

YEREVAN

Armenia hopes that Russia will not close its skies to Armenian
airlines, representative of the Armenian Main Department on Civil
Aviation Serzh Manukyan said on Friday.

The debt of Armenia to Russian air traffic controllers “is not as
large as the debts of other CIS member countries,” and there is a debt
payment schedule, he said.

Armenia owes $5.9 million dollars to Russian air traffic controllers,
and the debt of bankrupt Armenian Airlines is $2.89 million. The
Armenian aviation authorities recognized the debt at negotiations on
September 9.