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Promoting Armenian-Turkish Rapprochement Process

20.12.2010

Supported by Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Peacebuilding and Rights Program at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights (USA) and the International Center for Human Rights (Armenia) convened the four members of Armenian Consortium for Armenian-Turkish Rapprochement: ICHD, EPF, UMBA and YPC, and their seven Turkish partners: Turkish Armenian Business Development Center (TABDC), GAYA Research Institute, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), Anadolu Kultur, Global Political Trends Center (GPOT), Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Communication and Toplum Gönüllüleri at this Advocacy Summit at the Swedish Palace in Istanbul on 15-19 December 2010.

The meeting helped Armenian Consortium members and their Turkish partners getting to common understanding of the program goal, objectives and targets, methods and activities. The partners have planned specific initiatives for the first year, discussed cross-cutting opportunities and synchronized "Forth Wave Clock" for civil society initiatives. The partners have also recognized the key role of communications, coordination, and cooperation for the success of the initiative.

It was agreed that the Third Advocacy Summit could be organized in Yerevan in late-May and/or early-June 2011.

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On March 3, 2021, the first meeting of the GreenDeal Task Force created under the Initiative Lisbon-Vladivostok was held. In the videoconference format, more than twenty authoritative experts in the field of ecology and business from Austria, Armenia, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, France, as well as the representatives of the largest business industry associations supporting the Initiative Lisbon-Vladivostok, discussed common approaches to harmonizing the activities implemented by the EU and the EAEU on the path to sustainable development, including a radical reduction in greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere by 2050.

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