TURKISH BUSINESSMEN CALL FOR REOPENING BORDER WITH ARMENIA
By empty (8/19/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Some 30-40 Turkish businessmen from the cities of Kars, Igdir, and Artvin in eastern Anatolia met on 17 August in Yerevan with the Armenian Union of Industrialists and Businessmen to discuss how to promote bilateral trade, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. Both Armenian and Turkish participants expressed frustration at successive Turkish governments' refusal either to open the border between the two countries or to lift the ban on imports of Armenian goods. (RFE/RL).Visit also
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