ARMENIAN PLANS NEW ROAD TO DISPUTED AREA OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH
Bloomberg / Business Week
May 30 2013
By Sara Khojoyan
Armenia’s plans to build a second main road to the breakaway region of
Nagorno-Karabakh, a move that underscores that country’s unwillingness
to compromise with Azerbaijan over disputed territories.
If Armenians build a second main road to Nagorno-Karabakh it may
mean that Armenia “will be more uncompromising about Kelbajar,”
Tatul Hakobyan, a political analyst with Civilitas Foundation in
Yerevan, said by phone today in a reference to the adjacent region
in Azerbaijan that the road will cross.
The road will connect Gegharkunik in northeastern Armenia to Martakert
in northern Nagorno-Karabakh passing through Shahumyan-Kelbajar, one
of seven territories around the breakaway region under the control
of Armenian forces. Shahumyan’s return to Azerbaijan is among the
most controversial points in deadlocked talks over a peace agreement
mediated by U.S., Russia and France.
Construction of the 114-kilometer (71-mile) road will start next
year after the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, financed by the Armenian
diaspora, raises $30 million, according to Gevorg Gevorgyan, spokesman
for the fund.
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