CONSTRUCTION OF KATB RAILWAY IS NOT TOUCHED UPON AT PROPER LEVEL IN ARMENIA, HMAYAK HOVHANNISIAN THINKS

Noyan Tapan
Feb 15 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. RA National Assembly deputies
are today more worried with communal problems than with issues
of national importance like, for example, construction of
the Kars-Akhalkalak-Tbilisi-Baku railway, with all dangerous
consequences for Armenia. Chairman of the Politicians’ Union of
Armenia, deputy Hmayak Hovhannisian stated about it at the February
15 press conference. In his words, on February 8, the day of signing
of the agreement on railway construction the Armenian deputies did
not touch upon that agreement during the parliamentary questions and
answers. And responding Vartan Oskanian’s answer to his question that
"the program implementation will not bring to isolation of Armenia,"
H.Hovhannisian reminded Voltaire’s hero Doctor Pangloss who suffered
from unhealthy optimism.

The deputy mentioned that he is a supporter of the Armenian-Georgian
close cooperation, but bilateral sincerity is necessary for building
such relations and keeping them. "And how much are we sincere with
Georgia if we do not arise issues we are interested in?" H.Hovhannisian
said. In his opinion, the authorities of Armenia today mask the
problems arisen in front of the country, and, particularly, the
program on construction of the mentioned railway.

In H.Hovhannisian’s opinion, the Armenians of Javakhk will never adjust
to that program. In his words, "it is only owing to delicate policy
of Armenians living in the Fatherland, that a separative movement
did not start in Javakhk what was more probable than in the case of
Abkhazia, and there were even more preconditions of Javakhk’s becoming
independent than of Artsakh."