GOODS TRANSIT BETWEEN ARMENIA AND RUSSIA VIA GEORGIA NOT TO BE HALTED

Regnum, Russia
Oct 10 2006

Goods’ transit between Armenia and Russia via Georgian territory
will not be halted; Armenian presidential National security council
secretary Serge Sargsyan informed the press. It is worth stressing,
Serge Sargsyan participated in the ninth sitting of Armenian-Russian
intergovernmental commission in Moscow.

Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin is quoted by Armenian Public
TV-Channel as stressing that goods’ transit between Armenia and Russia
will be carried out from port of Samsun (Turkey) to port of Caucasus
(Russia) and, then, to port of Poti. Two train-ferries will function
between the port of Caucasus and the port of Poti by the end of
2006. Meanwhile, one 20-car train-ferry connects these ports.

Also, it was decided to give Russian companies one month of time to
prepare schemes on involvement Armenian enterprises, handed over to
Russian side in frames of Property for Debts program. Special protocol
was signed in that connection.

It is worth stressing, in framework of paying out its $100mln
worth state debt to Russia, Armenia has handed over to Russia
five enterprises – Hrazdan NPP, Mathematical scientific institute,
Scientific institute of computer-aided executive systems, Materials
Science Institute, and Mars plant; ArmInfo reports.