After the construction of Kars-Akhalkalak railroad the Kars-Gyumri railroad will become moot, and Armenia will have to join Kars-Akhalkalak-Tbilisi-Baku railroad to relieve its isolation. On August 27 the president of the Union of Political Scientists Hmayak Hovhannisyan offered this evaluation at the Friday press club. He views the issue in the context of Armenia’s stance on the Russian and Georgian tensions. “In its relations with Georgia Armenia was unable to sell its loyalty expensive,” Hmayak Hovanisyan says. According to him, it was necessary to show to Georgia that Armenians display good faith and do not give rise to a separatist movement in Javakheti, therefore Georgia must refuse to join Kars-Akhalkalak, which is not in Armenia’s interests.
