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Article: ARMENIA: ARMENIA SAYS CAUCASUS STABILITY PACT CONTINGENT ON IMPROVED ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- January 23, 2000
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Following talks in Tbilisi last weekend with Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, Turkish President Suleyman Demirel called for the creation of a Caucasus Peace and Stability Pact modeled on the Balkan Stability Pact concluded by the international community last year. Demirel proposed that the pact be drafted jointly by all three South Caucasus states and signed by their presidents and those of the world's leading countries. "Stability and peace in the Caucasus should be under European guarantees because this is important not only for Georgia and other countries of this region, but for their neighbors," Reuters quoted Demirel as saying. Shevardnadze, for his part, ...