ARMENIAN TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER VISIT SCR HEAD OFFICE NEXT WEEK

/ARKA/
April 22, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, April 22. /ARKA/. Armenian transport and communications
minister Manuk Vardanian is set to visit next week the head office of
the South Caucasus Railways (SCR) company to find out what problems
the Russian-run company has and what should be done to eliminate them,
the ministry said in a press release today.

It said the agreement was achieved today during a working meeting of
the minister and Shevket Shaydulin, SCR CEO.

The two men were said to have discussed a string of questions
pertaining to development of the system, including the state of the
company’s concessional commitments with the focus on their investment
component.

The South Caucasus Railways is run by Russian Railways. The
concessional agreement was concluded in 2008 for 30 years, with a
right of extension for another 20 years after the first 20 years of
operation.