AzerTAj’s Washington-based correspondent reports that visiting US capital Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan has expressed concern over the construction of the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railroad (Turkey-Georgia-Azerbaijan), at the briefing on June 10. He described as unreasonable a spending millions of dollars on the new project whereas existing railroad Kars-Gumri (Turkey-Armenia) is ‘rusting’.
In the States, the Armenian Minister met with State Secretary Condoleeza Rice, US President’s National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and co chairs of the US Congress’ working group for Armenian issues.
According to Mr. Oskanyan, ongoing political and economic reforms in Armenia, ways to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Turkey-Armenia relations and current situation in the South Caucasus are what the meeting were focus on. He claimed Armenia would not become one more place of “revolution”.
Touching upon the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Armenian Foreign Minister said the meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart expected on June 17 in Paris would be built on the progress reached by the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Warsaw. He claimed the future of the peace talks would depend on the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
As for the moving the Russian military installations from Georgia to Armenia, Vardan Oskanyan said, it met the interests of both sides increasing Armenia’s security in the current situation.
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