Azerbaijan, Baku, April 14 /Trend/
Georgia has not held any talks on the issue of the restoration of Abkhazian railway, said to Radio Liberty minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Maia Panjikidze during her official visit to Yerevan, Georgia-Online reported.
"We think about this. We have not begun any works in this direction. Considering the interests of Georgia we will try to understand what the benefit of Georgia in this process. After that we are going to establish a working group for exploring the situation, and finally after this we will make a decision. It's too early to speak about the restoration of Abkhazian railway. It was only an idea. This idea was discussed during the prime minister's visit to Yerevan, though nothing concrete was done in this direction," said Panjikidze.
The minister stressed that Georgian side should consider economic and politic apspects of the issue, understand what all of this is able to give to it, and only then establish a working group.
The minister for integration Paata Zakareishvili was the first who raised the issue of the restoration of Abkhazian railway. Later he declared that neither Russia nor Abkhazia showed any interest in this issue, so the issue in removed from the agenda. Later Zakareishvili said that Russia showed no interest in the restoration of Abkhazian railway.
However during the visit of prime minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili to Armenia and the Georgian delegation to Yerevan a declaration has been made on the discussion of the technical details of the project. Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania said March 9 in Yerevan that the first steps on resumption of the operation of the Abkhazian railway will be taken in the near future.