July 15, 2005 - 08:26 AMT
ARMENIA NOT UNDER TRANSPORT BLOCKADE, BAKU STATES
"Armenia is not under transport blockade", Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Transport Musa Pakhanov stated, Trend news agency reports. "If Armenia were under blockade it would not be able to receive the cargo. Presently Armenia receives the cargo destined for it via Georgia and Iran. That is why the claims of the alleged transport blockade of Armenia are not true", he noted. When touching upon the new railway route Sukhumi-Tbilisi-Yerevan, M. Pakhanov said that it's merely an idea at the moment. "Over the availability of a number of political problems the project is not promising, moreover in the soviet period the route for conveyance of passengers only", he resumed.