ARMENIA SEEKS FINANCES FOR REALIZATION OF YEREVAN-BATUMI HIGHWAY PROJECT
TREND
Dec 9 2008
Azerbaijan
Georgia, Tbilisi, 9 Dec / Trend News corr N. Kirtzkhalia / Armenia is
working hard to attract funds for the construction of Batumi-Yerevan
highway. Tigran Sarkisyan, prime minister of Armenia, said in Tbilisi
at the joint news conference with his Georgian counterpart Grigol
Mgaloblishvili on 9 Dec.Ã~B
Georgian and Armenian presidents reached an agreement on the
construction of the highway several months ago. This decision provoked
negative reaction of the Georgian experts which consider that this will
cause the armenization of the South regions of Georgia and will play
a role of the Rock tunnel through which the Russian forces entered
Tskhinvali in August.Ã~B Ã~B Ã~B Ã~B
Sarkisyan said the agreement has already been reached with Eurasia
fund. The fund is ready to allocate the certain amount of money for
the realization of the project. ââ~B¬Å~[Armenian fully supports
the construction of the current highway and we expect the soonest
realization of the project,ââ~B¬Å¥ Sarkisyan said. Georgian also
makes efforts on the realization of the project and now seeks for the
supplementary financial funds for the construction of the highway,
Mgaloblishvili said.Ã~B
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