Nadir Azmamedov: "Azerbaijani railroads remain closed for Armenia"

"They can promise everything but the Baku-Nakhchivan-Yerevan railroad will not operate until the occupied lands of Azerbaijan

are not released", thus Azmamedov commented on the prospects of opening of railway communication between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

It should be reminded that yesterday the Minister of Transport and Communications of Armenia Andranik Manukyan, commenting on the transmission of Armenian Railroads to the concessive regulation by Russian Railroads, announced that Russian Railroads plan to restore railway communication between Armenia and Azerbaijan and Armenia and Turkey. Manukyan said it will occur in 2009-2010.

Azmamedov announced that the opening of railway communication between Azerbaijan and Armenia is a political issue which can not be decided by the management of Russian railroads.

Azmamedov said Armenians are interested in the restoration of a railroad to Turkey via Kars and to Azerbaijan via Nakhchivam, as they would get good dividends from it.

"However, Azerbaijani Railroads will not cooperate with an invader country", the spokesman said.

/Day.Az/

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