Kremlin lobbying Abkhazian railway link restoration - newspaper

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13.01.2015, 14:26

Secret negotiations over resumption of Moscow-Sukhumi-Tbilisi-Yerevan railway route are under way in Moscow, Novoe Vremya reports referring to Georgia Online.

Kremlin lobbying Abkhazian railway link restoration - newspaper

YEREVAN, January 13./ARKA/. Secret negotiations over resumption of Moscow-Sukhumi-Tbilisi-Yerevan railway route are under way in Moscow, Novoe Vremya reports referring to Georgia Online.

Ucha Mamatsashvili, cousin of Georgia’s former premier and billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, is negotiating now with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Advisor Vladislav Surkov.

Ivanishvili raised this issue yet when he visited Armenia as prime minister and met with the Armenian president. When Russia signed an allied agreement with Abkhazia, President Putin unveiled this very plan of Kremlin.

It is specified in a separate provision that this transportation link will be restored if Georgia and Armenia give their consent.

The signing of this document would mean recognition of Abkhazia’s independence by Georgia, since in this document Abkhazia will be presented as an independent entity. ---0-----

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