20 KILOMETERS OF NEW ROAD FROM KAPAN TO MEGHRI READY FOR MOTORISTS

Armenpress
Nov 23 2006

KAPAN, NOVEMBER 23, ARMENPRESS: Armenian transport and communication
minister Andranik Manukian and his entourage traveled yesterday the
first 20 km of a 92 km-long road that is being constructed to provide
a shorter and safer connection between the town of Meghri in Armenia’s
south and Kapan, the capital of the southern province of Syunik.

Some 2.3 billion Armenian drams were spent to built this section. Azat
Gasparian, head of the construction firm that won the tender to build
the road, said they had to narrow the bed of the border Arax river
to built 2.5 km section of the road.

Another 20 km of the road will be ready by the end of this year
and the rest of 32 km will be finished in 2007. The government has
released 26.5 billion drams for building of this alternative road
and will release $6 million more.