VLADIMIR YAKUNIN’S OPINION NEGATIVE ABOUT CONSTRUCTION OF A RAILWAY BYPASSING ARMENIA

Public Radio, Armenia
Oct 23 2006

President of the "Russian railways" OJSC Vladimir Yakunin considers
that the project of construction of the Kars-Akhalkalak-Tbilisi
railway is an attempt to exert pressure over Armenia.

Yakunin told "Echo Moskvi" radio station that his attitude toward
the construction of the railway bypassing Armenia is negative,
Mediamax reports.

"It divides the unity of the railway network that remained from the
Soviet Union," Vladimir Yakunin said. Moreover, he noted that it is
an attempt of exact states to exert pressure on our friendly country."