“The possible opening of the Turkish border would significantly benefit the Armenian economy and have little adverse impact on local manufacturers,” the chairman of Armenia’s largest business association Arsen Ghazaryan insisted yesterday. He predicted that cross-border commerce would quickly spur economic activity and create many jobs in Armenian regions bordering Turkey. Ghazaryan further argued that an open border with Turkey will become all the more important in the event of the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and restoration of commercial links between Armenia and Azerbaijan. That, he said, would turn Armenia into a regional transit country and we won’t need to try so hard to maintain such a powerful army.
