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.

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