CBDN PROGRAM TO HELP ESTABLISH COOPERATION OF ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI
BUSINESSMEN

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The purpose of the Caucasian
Business and Development Network (CBDN) program is to establish
business links among small and medium enterpeises of the conflict
countries in the South Caucasus, thus assisting with the settlement of
these conflicts. Aghavni Karakhanian, Director of the Civil Society
and Regional Development Institute, Coordinator of the CBDN Yerevan
Office, said this at the ceremony of opening the CBDN Yerevan Office
on October 27. According to her, one of the peculiarities of this
program financed by the British government is to involve not
recognized states of the South Caucasian region: Nagorno Karabakh,
Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the indicated process. It was mentioned
that thanks to studies and negotiations over the past three years, an
agreement on economic cooperation was reached by several
represenatives of the private sectors of Armenia and Azerbaijan.