ARMENIA’S RAIL COMMUNICATION WITH GEORGIA HAS NOT BEEN AFFECTED BY GEORGIA FIGHTING

ARMENPRESS
Aug 12, 2008

YEREVAN, AUGUST 12, ARMENPRESS: Transport and Communication Minister
Gurgen Sargsian said today Armenia’s rail communication with Georgia
has not been affected by the fighting in Georgia. "There have been
no changes in the train schedule and trains from Yerevan to Tbilisi
and Batumi continue to run as planned," he said today to journalists.

He said all Armenia-bound goods that were at Bagratashen crossing on
the border with Georgia were brought to Armenia, including ten railways
cars with petrol, 12 cars with kerosene for aircrafts, 11 cars with
diesel fuel, 4 cars with wheat and 24 cars with different commodities.

According to the minister, there are 18 cars with Armenia-bound wheat
now in Georgia. He said the wheat was unloaded two days ago at Poti
port into railway cars and will arrive soon in Armenia.

He said thousands of Armenian citizens had been already evacuated
from Georgia by buses and minibuses. The convoys of Armenian evacuees,
led by Georgian police patrols, move along the road that runs through
Georgia’s Armenian- populated Javakheti region to the Bavra border
crossing in northwestern Armenia, he said.