ARMENIA AND RUSSIA SETTLING TRANSPORT PROBLEMS

Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, his Russian colleague Mikhail Fradkov and head of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov discussed today in Moscow the issue of opening the Abkhazian sector of the Transcaucasian railway. As A. Margarian stated after the meeting, the resolving of the problem depends on the position of official Tbilisi. In this view Armenian Premier noted that he is going to pay a visit to Georgia in the near future and “this issue will become the principal one during the negotiation with the leadership of that country”. To remind, official Tbilisi binds the possibility of starting talks with the return of the Georgian refugees to the Galski region of Abkhazia. It should be also noted that this line is the only railway link between Armenia and Russia.