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).The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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