(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 30. Opening
transport links is a decisive step in turning the South Caucasus
into a region of stability, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey
Overchuk said in an interview with 'Rossiyskaya Gazeta' newspaper,
reports.
'In order to open economic and transport links in the region, by
decision of the heads of state, a working group was established
under the joint chairmanship of the deputy prime ministers of
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia. Achieving this goal will be a
decisive step for the South Caucasus to evolve from a hotbed of
tension into a region of stability and economic prosperity,'
Overchuk noted.
According to him, open communications will make it possible to
develop trade and humanitarian ties, and allow neighbors to
communicate with each other, and this is the best medicine for
long-term wounds which exist in the region.
'Russia also needs these roads very much, because they will pass
throughout the territories of friendly countries and reach them,'
added the official.
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