Today, Azerbaijan
Jan 11 2008
Nadir Azmamedov: "Azerbaijani railroads remain closed for Armenia"
11 January 2008 [13:33] – Today.Az
Azerbaijani Railroads remain closed for Armenia, spokesman for the
Azerbaijan Railroad Department Nadir Azmamedov said.
"They can promise everything but the Baku-Nakhchivan-Yerevan
railroad will not operate until the occupied lands of Azerbaijan
are not released", thus Azmamedov commented on the prospects of
opening of railway communication between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
It should be reminded that yesterday the Minister of Transport and
Communications of Armenia Andranik Manukyan, commenting on the
transmission of Armenian Railroads to the concessive regulation by
Russian Railroads, announced that Russian Railroads plan to restore
railway communication between Armenia and Azerbaijan and Armenia and
Turkey. Manukyan said it will occur in 2009-2010.
Azmamedov announced that the opening of railway communication between
Azerbaijan and Armenia is a political issue which can not be decided
by the management of Russian railroads.
Azmamedov said Armenians are interested in the restoration of a
railroad to Turkey via Kars and to Azerbaijan via Nakhchivam, as they
would get good dividends from it.
"However, Azerbaijani Railroads will not cooperate with an invader
country", the spokesman said.
/Day.Az/