Turkish and Armenian producers launch Cheese for Peace
Our Turkish and Armenian partners have launched a new cheese brand as part of the South Caucasus regional initiative. |
| 5-Jun-2008 |
 Alert’s Turkish and Armenian partners jointly launch a new cheese brand aimed at encouraging economic ties across the South Caucasus region.
The unveiling of the “Caucasian Cheese” took place on 14th May during The First Caucasian Cheese Exhibition in the city of Gyumri, Armenia. The cheese will be produced and sold in both countries.
Turkey and Armenia are countries with no diplomatic ties and a closed border. Consequently trade between the two has flown either north through Georgia, or south through Iran. The joint cheese production is meant to promote cooperation between the two countries, and also across the whole South Caucasus region.
The cooperation is one of multiple initiatives facilitated by the Caucasus Business and Development Network (CBDN), an organisation established and supported by Alert. CBDN offers local entrepreneurs ways to connect and cooperate. It provides advice and information on regional business opportunities, organises business forums and conferences, facilitates business deals and holds training sessions for local entrepreneurs.
Alert’s role is to support people involved in the network. We work with local businesses and professional associations that come from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, as well as the unrecognised entities of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorny Karabakh.
Previous CBDN and Alert initiatives have included a Regional Tourism Operators’ Forum and the first ever South Caucasian Women’s Economic Forum. Recently Alert initiated joint honey production and agricultural machinery lending schemes in the South Ossetian conflict zone, and organised a fruit juice production scheme in the Georgian-populated eastern Abkhazia for the western Abkhaz tourism market.
For more information contact: Oskari Pentikainen |
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