From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/19/2006 11:04 AM Restoration Of Abkhazia Railways Section To Take From 12 To 18 Months Tbilisi, June 16, Armenpress: Vladimir Badalian, an Armenian parliament member and a cochairman of the Armenian-Russian and Armenian-Georgian Business Associations, told Armenpress a set of documents, which are necessary for starting restoration of the Abkhazian section of the Georgian railway will be ready by the end of the year and the reconstruction will take from 12 to 18 months. Badalian said the 197 km-long section of the railroad stretching across Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia needs to be fully restored together with bridges, tunnels and other infrastructure. Badalian said the restoration will comprise two stages-first will be resumed trains for transportation of cargo and then restoration of infrastructure and stations will begin. He said the Armenian-Georgian-Abkhazian-Russian consortium, founded for this purpose, will meet in Tbilisi on July 10-15 to specify some points, particularly, sources of funding. Badalian said it was possible also to resume the operation of an automobile road stretching through Abkhazia. He said the road may even start operation before the railway resumes. By the way three buses with Armenians, relatives of the passengers of the plane that fell into the Black Sea on May 3 and reporters traveled from Yerevan to the crash site in Russian Sochi for a commemoration ceremony through Abkhazia. Badalian said it was a remarkable event, as the road opened for the first time for civic passengers.
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