Azerbaijan News Service
April 28, 2005
BORDERS WITH ARMENIA NOT OPENED,NEVZAT TURKHAN,GOVERNOR OF GARS
PROVINCE OF TURKEY
2005-04-28 19:50
Turkey won’t open borders with Armenia unless Armenian withdraw its
troops from occupied Azerbaijani territories, said Nevzat Turkhan,
governor of Gars province of Turkey upon leaving Baku after his three
days official visit to Azerbaijan. He stated information about
opening Turkey’s borders with Armenia is groundless. Hasan Zeynalov,
chief consul of Azerbaijan to Gars considers Azerbaijan has great
problems in these areas. As there is no transport connection between
this region and Azerbaijan residents suffer lack of information about
Azerbaijan. And there are some circles that use this against interest
of Azerbaijan. In order to eliminate this problem Azerbaijan’s Chief
Consulate to Gars organized three days official visit of governors of
5 Turkish provinces-Gars, Agri, Erdehan, Iqdir and Arzrum to
Azerbaijan. Turkish officials held meetings with Azerbaijani
government leaders within the frames of their official visit ended on
April 28. Development of cooperation between Azerbaijan and 5
provinces of Turkey, construction of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main oil
export pipeline as well as realization of Baku-Tbilisi-Gars railway
was at the center of attention in the meting with Ilham Aliyev,
president of Azerbaijan.