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Armenian-Georgian-Ajarian Business Forum to Be Held in Ajaria in May

22.04.2006 00:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An Armenian-Georgian-Ajarian business forum will be
held in Ajaria late May. The forum will be followed by an
Armenian-Georgian intergovernmental sitting. According to chairman of
the Armenian-Georgian and Armenian-Ajarian associations Vladimir
Badalyan, the Armenian-Georgian association has been successfully
functioning for two years already.

`One of the tasks of the Armenian-Georgian association is the
organization of summer vacations in foreign states for the middle
section of the Armenian population. 12 thousand Armenian citizens took
a vacation to Ajaria in 2005. This figure can double if the transport
problem is solved,’ Badalyan said.

Badalyan noted that presently the journey from Armenia to Batumi takes
16 hours, meanwhile the construction of a road through Javakhk will
shorten the way with 6 hours. `It will contribute to the development
of Javakhk and attract investments to the Ajarian economy,’ he said.