EU Demands Laying Railway from Turkey to Europe through Armenia

October 19, 2006 - 18:34 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - «Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, who are included in the TRACECA, support the Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway project, however EU does not have a positive stance on the matter,» stated National Secretary of TRACECA inter-governmental commission Akif Mustafayev. In his words, the EU does not want Armenia to stay aside of regional projects. The EU demands to lay a railway from Turkey to Europe through Armenia in exchange. «However, it is not possible before settlement of the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh. The unwillingness of individual states to finance Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars project will not tell on its implementation in any way. The countries participating in the project have already indicated their readiness to allocate means for holding works,» Mustafayev states, reports APA.
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