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Armenian companies have proposed exporting red meat to Turkey to satisfy growing demand in the country despite border disputes between the two countries, reports the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review.
“Armenia would be pleased to export processed meats to Turkey,” Arayik Makaryan, director of Global Armenia Business in Andarag Ltd., told Hürriyet on Tuesday after the India-Turkey-CIS Business Forum in Istanbul. “Business has limits and we are here to make business. For us politics has no priority at all.”
Vladimir Galstyan, president of the Armenian Sector Union of Farmers and Tanners, said his company exported 120,000 live cattle to Iran last year. “So why not to Turkey?” he asked.
Albert Ohanjanyan, a meat producer from Armenia, said his company is proposing to provide Turkey with 1,000 tons of fresh or frozen meat. “The border between the two countries should be opened as soon as possible [to enhance the meat trade],” he said.