Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has met representatives of
Armenian public organizations in Ankara, 1news.az reports.
He assured them that Turkey will open the border with Armenia for
trans-border freighting. Although the Turkish minister did not give
details about the date, spokesman for the Union of Armenian
Manufacturers and Businessmen Artur Kazaryan said.
The director of the Center for Regional Studies, Richard Giragosyan,
was impressed with the time the minister had spent with
representatives of the public organizations. Davutoglu said that the
psychological border between the two peoples had opened long ago.
Armenia and Turkey signed the so-called Zurich protocols in
Switzerland in October 2009. The documents were intended to unfreeze
relations between the two states, but have not been realized. Neither
state has ratified them.
