Kars Mayor Going to Work for Opening Armenian-Turkish BorderSeptember 16, 2006 - 15:39 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Conference of the Festival of Cultures of the Caucasus, planned to be held in Kars, is postponed, Consul of Azerbaijan in Kars Hasan Zeynalov reported. In his words, it is due to a collision between a folklore group from Armenia and representatives of Azerbaijan. As a result the folklore group from Armenia expressed «protest to Kars municipality» and left Turkey. Noting that he met with Kars municipality leader, Zeynalov reported that in the course of the discussion the Mayor said that he will attain opening of borders and then will try to solve the Nagorno Karabakh issue. The conference was planned to start tomorrow. Some time ago Kars municipality made a statement that it will continue activities on opening of the Armenian-Turkish borders and will attain it without fail, reports APA.Azerbaijani authorities report that they have already resettled 3,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Stepanakert. On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. Partner news |