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MAMEDYAROV: MEDIATORS DISCUSS OPENING NAKHICHEVAN-MEGHRI RAIL BRANCH WITH
YEREVAN AND BAKU

26.05.2005 03:48

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ «The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs will hold the recurrent
talks over settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict May 27. The outcomes
of the talks held up to today will be discussed at the meeting,» Azeri
Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov told journalists, reported APA Azeri
agency. The Azeri FM called statements that Russian and French
representatives intend to base the talks on a specific peace plan
groundless. He also emphasized that during the talks within the Prague
process specific details of the solution of the conflict were discussed.
«One of the main subjects of discussion during the dialogue was the solution
of the transport communication problem. In the course of the negotiations
not only the use of the Lachin corridor as a secure transport line is
discussed. The opening of the Nakhichevan-Meghri rail branch line is also
discussed. It is the largest regional rail network that has to be opened in
order for Nakhichevan communication with the rest of the territory of the
country to be restored. The matter concerns both opening the railway and the
motor road.»