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Armenia Seeks Chinese Loans For Iran Rail Link

by Asbarez Staff
June 28, 2010
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Armenia's Transport and Communications Minister Manuk Vartanian at a news conference.

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–Armenia is seeking as much as $1 billion in loans from China to finance the construction of a railway that would link it with neighboring Iran, Transport and Communications Minister Manuk Vartanian said on Monday.
After years of discussion, the Armenian and Iranian governments formally agreed to start working on the extremely ambitious project in April 2009. They have claimed to be making steady progress towards its implementation.
However, they have yet to secure concrete sources of funding for the 470-kilometer rail link, the bulk of it passing through Armenian territory. Unofficial estimates of the project’s total cost have varied from $1.2 billion to $4 billion.
According to Vartanian, the Armenian government has been negotiating with Iran, Russia and China for that purpose. It hopes that China alone will provide more than $1 billion of the required funding, he said.
“Negotiations are being conducted with three states, including financial companies,” Vartanian told a news conference. “I have also talked to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which has expressed readiness [to assist in the project] after we meet some demands.”
The ADB agreed in 2008 year to provide $1.5 million for feasibility studies on the project. However, the sum has still not been disbursed. Vartanian gave no reason for the delay.
President Sarkisian sought to promote it during a visit to Germany last week. He said that the Armenia-Iran rail link as well as the unfolding expansion of Armenian highways leading to Iran could have “a truly revolutionary significance” for the wider region.

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