Armenia Doesn’t Mediate Talks On Upper Lars Checkpoint

ARMENIA DOESN’T MEDIATE TALKS ON UPPER LARS CHECKPOINT

Aysor
Nov 19 2009
Armenia

"If Russia and Georgia come to terms in negotiations on Upper Lars
checkpoint’s opening, Armenia will only welcome this developing,"
told Aysor’s correspondent Armenia’s Foreign Ministry spokesman,
Tigran Balayan.

Armenia is not an official mediator in negotiations between Georgia
and Russia, so Armenia’s Foreign Ministry has no detailed information
related to last developments in the process.

On November 13 Georgia’s Security Council made a decision to open Upper
Lars checkpoint at Russia-Georgia border. The checkpoint closed in 2006
by Russian-made decision, conditioned by ‘some reconstruction’. This
led to a deep reduction in exporting of Georgian goods as well as it
much influenced supply to Armenia. Upper Lars checkpoint provided 30%
of land freight to Armenia.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS