Kars Memorial of Armenian-Turkish Friendship Not to Be Erected

AZG Armenian Daily #018, 01/02/2007

Turk-Azeri Affairs

MEMORIAL OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH FRIENDSHIP NOT TO BE ERECTED

"Trend news agency, referring to the Azerbaijani
Embassy in Turkey, said that the Ambassador of
Azerbaijan in Ankara Zair HAshimov, on his visit to
Kars" met with the Governor Mehmet Ufuk Erden, the
commander of the 14th mechanized brigade, Erjan Okan
and the Head of municipality, Naif Elibeioghlu. At all
the meetings, the Ambassador informed his
interlocutors of the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh.
Three representatives of Turkey have assured the
Azerbaijani Ambassador of impossibility of opening the
Turkish-Armenian border. During negotiations, it has
succeeded to achieve the stopping of erection of a
monument in the center of Kars devoted to the
friendship between Turkey and Armenia, a decision made
by the municipality of Kars.