By empty (3/21/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The reestablishment of a railroad connection between Yerevan and Moscow has been discussed at today\'s meeting of a delegation of the Armenian National Assembly with representatives of the Russian Federation Council. Armenian parliamentarians have urged the Federation Council to use every possibility to reestablish the Transcaucasian railroad and welcomed the reestablishment of a railroad connection between Sochi and Sukhumi. Oganes Oganyan, the head of the Federation Council Economic Policy Committee, said that, according to experts, the reestablishment of a railroad connection with Armenia would increase the Armenian GDP by 40 percent, at least.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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