YEREVAN (ARKA)–The issue of Russia’s involvement in the construction of an ambitious railway linking Iran and Armenia will be decided by a task force composed of deputy ministers from both countries, Armenia’s Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said on Wednesday.

Armenia and Iran formalized their plans to construct the railway connecting the two neighboring countries in April when Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian signed an agreement to that affect on his visit to Tehran. Construction of the railway is estimated to be completed in about 5 years.

“The construction of the Iran-Armenia railway is an open project, and we invited our Russian partners,” Sargsyan was quoted by the Armenian ARKA news agency as saying. “The Intergovernmental Commission has appointed task group members, and the Russian side has nominated its candidates.”

In this context he also pointed out the Armenian President’s political decision incorporated in a document signed during Serzh Sargsyan’s visit to Iran.