{"id":43739,"date":"2010-08-07T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/07\/turkey-georgia-initiative-leaves-armenia-out-in-the-cold\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T01:11:00","slug":"turkey-georgia-initiative-leaves-armenia-out-in-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/07\/turkey-georgia-initiative-leaves-armenia-out-in-the-cold.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey-Georgia Initiative Leaves Armenia Out in the Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, after an announcement on easing the customs process with neighboring countries, spoke about the recently completed Turkey-Georgia joint inspection and customs control in Sarpi. According to Saakashvili, the decision to build the checkpoint was made as a result of talks with Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Turkey’s and Georgia’s borders, by being open, allows for the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey transport corridor to become an influential segment of the Great Silk Road project,” reports Russian news source Nezavisimaya Gazeta.<\/p>\n

“Because of the political motives of this union, in Armenia they’re calling it ‘anti-Armenian.’ Yerevan’s concern is also conditioned by the fact that, even with the help of the West, it was unable to make amendments to the Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars project. Because of the Karabakh issue, the opening of the unused section of the formed Gyumri-Kars railway will sufficiently reduce the road construction cost. The Kars-Akhalkalaki sections wouldn’t have been necessary. Despite the fact that, upon Yerevan’s suggestion, there were supporters also in Turkey, Azerbaijan was able to move its agenda forward: all projects will be carried out without Armenia, since the issue of Mountainous Karabakh still exists,” wrote the Nezavisimaya Gazeta analyst.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Georgia isn’t preparing to be satisfied with what it has. Georgian Finance Minister Kakha Baindurashvili and Armenian Ambassador Hratch Silvanyan on Wednesday in Tbilisi discussed numerous border control issues.<\/p>\n

It’s become known that, as part of the Integrated Border Management program, the Council of Europe will grant Yerevan $2 million USD for border control of the Armenia-Georgia segment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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