BAKU: Residents Of Alijan Village On Turkey-Armenia Border Protest T

RESIDENTS OF ALIJAN VILLAGE ON TURKEY-ARMENIA BORDER PROTEST THE REOPENING OF BORDERS

APA
April 10 2009
Azerbaijan

Igdir – APA. Today, reporters of Turkish "Dogan" news agency have
left for Igdir region to get acquainted with the situation in Alijan
border crossing point.

APA reports that journalists wrote that the Alijan border crossing
point is 16 km away from the center of Igdir City and no one is allowed
to enter the zone. Turkish military servicemen taking control over the
territory did not respond the questions of journalists. Residents of
Alijan village on Turkey-Armenia border also protested the reopening
of borders. "We are together with our Azeri brothers and do not want
the reopening of Turkey-Armenia borders. The borders can be opened
only after the fulfillment of conditions of Azerbaijan and Turkey".

Chief of Garagoyunlu settlement municipality from ruling AKP Ziyad
Ali Delikdash also noted that great majority of local population
was against the reopening of borders: "We are one nation, two
states. Armenians have forcedly occupied Nagorno Karabakh. Armenians
must release all the territories under their occupation and they must
leave their claims on so-called Armenian genocide."