ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Aug 24 2007
Transport communication problem serious in Armenian-Russian relations
YEREVAN, August 24. /ARKA/. The transport communication problem is
one of the complicated issues of Armenian-Russian relations, Head of
the Caucasus Department, the CIS Institute, Mikhail Alexandrov
stated in his interview to kreml.org.
Since Russia has bad relations with Georgia, it had to close some
transit points in its territory, through which cargoes for Armenia
were transported as well. `Armenia expressed its discontent, and
Russia has implemented the Caucasus-Poti project, and this route is
used for the transportation of cargoes from Russia to Armenia. That
is, we satisfied the Armenian sides’ wish, but we cannot allow free
transit through Georgia, and the Armenian side must realize it,’
Alexandrov said.
Speaking of some high-tech enterprises transferred to Russia against
Armenia’s national debt, he pointed out that not only Russia, but
also Armenia are responsible.
`Russia’s fault is that, since our country has no industry
development policy, the Government does not know the way of
efficiently operating the enterprises. They do not even know how to
efficiently operate numerous Russian companies. This is a malady of
our state which is liable to ideological dogmas of liberal
monetarism: the private sector itself must do everything,’ the expert
said.
According to him, this is a `primitive approach of lazy boys, who
think that the market will resolve all the problems, while they are
sitting and goofing off.’ `But this is not practiced anywhere. We
must work actively, elaborate projects that will help us to use the
capacities available,’ Alexandrov said. P.T. -0–
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
