Showing posts with label Border. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Border. Show all posts

Saturday, October 30, 2010

“Strong Turkey” open Armenian-Turkish border, without preconditions

October 29, 2010 | 13:16 

 Chairman of the “Strong Turkey” Tuna Beklevic is dissatisfied with the Armenian Foreign Ministry’s indifferent attitude.
"Arriving in Yerevan, we were hoping to have a cup of tea or coffee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and to chat, but it did not happen," - noted Beklevic with regret, hinting at the same time that the MFA can fill this “gap” until tomorrow morning.
"Yesterday’s statement by Foreign Minister regarding our visit saddened us and broke our hearts. This is our third visit already; we arrived with purpose of the opening of the border and the strengthening of relations between the two nations. This is somewhat a community effort. Neither the Turkish Government has sent us here, nor has the Armenian government invited us. We are not obliged to listen to the Turkish or Armenian governments. We consider our visit joint efforts of the Armenian and Turkish youth. This is a visit of Peace and Friendship”- said Beklevic, expressing  hope that one day they will sit at a table with the Armenian Government  and drink tea or coffee together.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Armed EU guards to patrol Greece-Turkey border

Brussels deploys new force in attempt to curb entry of hundreds of illegal migrants a day via large unmonitored area
Ian Traynor in Brussels and Helena Smith in Samos | Monday 25 October 2010


A new force of armed European guards is to be dispatched to Greece to patrol the country's border with Turkey in an attempt to stem steeply increasing illegal immigration into Europe.


The deployment of the Rapid Intervention Border Teams, assembled from the border guard forces of other European countries, will be the first time Brussels has deployed multinational armed units on the EU's external land border.