TURKEY SET TO ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF FRENCH SANCTIONS

January 22, 2001 - 15:05 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - 22.01.2001, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that his government was moving towards implementing sanctions against France, with details to be announced in the coming days. This measure will be introduced against France in retaliation to the Armenian Resolution, approved by the National Assembly of France last week.

"We are preparing a plan which will not cause us too much harm," the Turkish leader told journalists in Ankara.

The Ankara Chamber of Commerce showed blanket support for sanctions saying, "we would support any economic measure the government would introduce", Turkish leading papers report.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ismail Cem said that "such measures could be introduced with respect to public tenders and defense contracts" - an apparent hint that French firms might be excluded from such lucrative projects.

France is among Turkey's main economic partners, with bilateral trade in 1999 standing at some 4.5 billion dollars . --0--
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