SOUTH-CAUCASIAN RAILWAYS SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH ARMENIAN TRAFFIC POLICE

ARKA
March 10, 2010

YEREVAN, March 10. /ARKA/. Shevket Shaidullin, director general of
the South-Caucasian Railways, and Samvel Asatryan, chief of Armenia’s
traffic police, signed an agreement on Wednesday, the company’s press
office reports.

The document will regulate official relations between the railway
and the traffic police.

Under this agreement, cargoes and passengers should be transported
by trains under escort.

Contacts between the traffic police and railway workers are frequent
because of traffic accidents and efforts to prevent them.

The South-Caucasian Railways administration has repeatedly expressed
willingness to make its cooperation with the police closer.

The South-Caucasian Railways CJSC is concession manager of the Armenian
Railway Company. South-Caucasian Railway, fully owned by the Russian
Railways Company, listed in its fixed assets the rolling stock of
the Armenian Railway on June 1, 2008, under a concession contract of
February 13, 2008.

Armenian Railway has been handed over to the South-Caucasian Railways
CJSC for 30 years with a right for one-decade prolongation.