ARMENIA, IRAN TO LAUNCH RAILWAY PROJECT SOON
ARKA
Apr 10, 2009
YEREVAN, April 10. /ARKA/. Armenia and Iran will launch a railway
construction project this or next year, RA President Serzh Sargsyan
told a news conference on the 1st anniversary of his inauguration.
"If not this, then next year we will start the construction of an
Iran-Armenia railway," Sargsyan said. The Armenian President expressed
the confidence that the program will be implemented and facilitate
the resolution of social problems.
On April 3, in Yerevan, RA Minister of Transport and Communications
Gurgen Sargsyan and Minister of Road and Transportation Hamid
Behbahani signed a memorandum of understanding on the construction
of an Iran-Armenia railway.
The document was signed during the 2nd sitting of the Armenian-Iranian
Commission for Transport Cooperation.