GEORGIAN MP REFUTES INFORMATION OF GEORGIAN NEWSPAPER

Arminfo

AKHALKALAKI, APRIL 8. ARMINFO. Gergian MP Van Bayburyan has refuted
information published in a Georgian newspaper “Alia.”

According to the publication in the above newspaper, in the course
of April 5-6 negotiations between Armenian and Georgian presidents,
the issue of the Armenian President’s contribution to dispersal of
demonstration sentiments in Akhalkalaki and easing the situation
in Samtskhe-Javakhetia was discussed. The newspaper says that in
return Robert Kocharyan allegedly asked Mikheil Sahakashvili to
activate Abkhazian railway branch in direction Sochi-Yerevan as soon
as possible.

A-INFO reports today that Van Bayburyan participating in the meeting
of Armenian and Georgian presidents says in connection with the
publication in the above newspaper that it does not correspond to
reality. He does not rule out that activation of the railway section
was discussed by the presidents tete-a-tete. However, he categorically
refutes the information of the Georgian newspaper. “No bargaining
was and could be between the two presidents as ‘Alia’ writes,”
Bayburyan says.