Construction of Kars-Akhalkalak-Tbilisi-Baku to Start 2007

AZG Armenian Daily #162, 26/08/2006

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CONSTRUCTION OF KARS-AKHALKALAK-TBILISI-BAKU TO START 2007

"Kars-Akhalkalak-Tbilisi-Baku railway is of strategic importance for
Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Execution of the project will begin in 2007," Trend agency referred
to Turkish press that quoted Binali Yildirim, transport minister of
Turkey, as saying.

"$320 million was allocated for the project’s implementation," Yildirim
said adding that "thanks to the railway, Turkey will become the main
transit country in transporting goods from Europe to Asia."

Yildirim said that currently the issue of another railway through
Nakhijevan to Iran is being discussed.

"We will carefully discuss that issue," the Turkish minister said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS