
October 25, 2008 - 17:13 AMT

03:21 GMT
There are presently 44 landlocked countries in the world, most of which are in Africa - 15, then comes Europe with 14 states, followed by Asia - 12 and South America - 2. Lack of territorial access to the sea means for these countries eclipsed opportunities to communicate with the world, develop and maintain trade-economic relations and grow as a whole. Armenia now faces all these difficulties, and it should be admitted that no opening of a border can bring about changes in geographical location of the country. There might be a slight progress in political sphere but still from the purely geographical point of view Armenia is doomed to be an enclosed piece of land.