President of the Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen of Armenia Arsen Ghazaryan has made a call regarding the ban on imports of Turkish goods.

The call-statement reads as follows:

“Due to Turkey’s efforts to provoke a military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its direct participation in the conflict and its policy to perpetrate a new Armenian genocide and achieve its expansionary ambitions, renouncing the imports of goods from the inimical country has become an issue on the Armenian government’s agenda.

In regard to this, the Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen has already addressed Armenian businessmen with a call, several companies have refused to sell Turkish goods at their own initiative, the government has undertaken an initiative through which there will be a temporary ban on imports of final goods of Turkish origin starting from December 31, 2020.

Simultaneously, businessmen and individual entrepreneurs are facing problems since they had already imported a large number of goods from Turkey, had made a lot of expenses and now have trouble selling those products. By boycotting the already imported goods, Armenia is hurting the country's importers, not Turkey, and many of those importers have loans to pay off.

Thus, reaffirming the Union’s conviction of the need to stop imports of Turkish goods, the Union calls on consumers of Armenia to be understanding and not obstruct the sale of the goods that have already been imported.

We call on domestic manufacturers and businessmen having worked with the Turkish market to be enterprising, establish new business relations and collaborate with new foreign markets in order to fully meet the demand of products that Armenia’s consumers need.”