Experts on Gars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi railway project gather in Georgia

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Feb 8 2005

Baku, February 7, AssA-Irada — A two-day meeting of the working
group on the Gars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi railway construction started in
Tbilisi, Georgia on Monday. The participants will discuss establishing
a consortium on the construction of the railway and consider documents
to be discussed in a meeting of the working group due in Turkey this
April, the State Railway Office (SRO) told AssA-Irada.

A final document on the construction of the Gars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi
railway is to be signed in Turkey.

An Azerbaijani delegation led by chief engineer of the SRO Gurban
Nazarov is attending the meeting.

The activity of the working group comprising experts of Azerbaijan,
Turkey and Georgia is coordinated by the three countries’ deputy
transport ministers.*