The Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railroad project is economically ungrounded and targeted at deepening of Armenia’s blockade, vice-speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Vahan Hovhannissian told reporters today. “This is a mere political project. Turkey hopes that with exploitation of the railway will alleviate pressure as regards opening of the Armenian-Turkish border. However, it’s an erroneous calculation, since we clearly understand that the project has nothing in common with economy and communications,” he said adding that Armenia is capable to hamper its implementation. “If we succeed in fining correct diplomatic solutions the implementation may at least be protracted,” the vice-speaker said.
“The project is hard to implement. Some sectors should lie though out-of-the-way places. Furthermore, it will be hard settle the financial issues, especially after the U.S. ban,” he said. “Armenia should work for a similar decision by the European Union. The whole Armenian diplomatic system should work in this direction,” the vice-speaker underscored, reports newsarmenia.ru
