View from Yerevan: Tbilisi intention to recover the Trade Corridors  Agreement denying  political problems had with Moscow inspires hopes  for success 

ArmInfo. Tbilisi's intention to recover the Trade Corridors Agreement denying  political problems had with Moscow inspires hopes for success of the initiative, Sergey Minasyan, the Deputy Director of  the Institute of Caucasus shared  his opinion with  ArmInfo. 

On February 8 Grigori Karasin, the Deputy Foreign Minister of  Russia  stated that there  is one last and the most difficult step is left to  make to open the new transit corridor through Georgia, accentuating  that not only Russia and Georgia are interested in 2011 Agreements   implementation, but Armenia as well.

 "Particularly, the reason to  hope for optimistic scenario is the  intention of Georgian Government to implement this Agreement   with  Russia assuming the development of transport corridors with two  countries  despite existing political problems in respect to Abkhazia  and Southern Ossetia," he accentuated.  At that, the expert thinks  that the main problem on the way of   the 2011 Transport Corridors  Agreement implementation   is the level of Georgian opposition  influence on  official   Tbilisi's will  to work in this aspect. 

According to him,  parties decided to discuss those issues which  could be solved without  crossing  the "red lines"  - Abkhazia and  South Ossetia statuses, as  well as Russian troops presence there.  This approach will allow parties to avoid the painful issue of   customs  registration of cargo at the border, as well as to launch  vehicle road through Southern Ossetia, which is extremely important   for Armenia, because the road leading to Upper  Lars is being often   closed due to weather conditions.