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22 June 2006 - 10:27 AMT

Gul: Armenia Can Join Kars-Akhalkalaki Railway Project

«If Armenia wishes it can join the building Kars-Akhalkalaki railway,» Turkish FM Abdullah Gul said at a meeting with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. In the words of Turkish MFA Spokesperson Namik Tan, inclusion of Armenia in the project is conditioned with the issue of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. «We can involve Armenia only after the conflict is settled. Aliyev and Gul stated it. However, Armenia should make certain steps and try to find ways of settlement of the Karabakh conflict,» Tan said, reports RFE/RL.