Armenia says it is ready to establish diplomatic ties with Turkey

Turkish Overseas Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meets together with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan throughout the Antalya Diplomacy Discussion board (ADF) in Antalya, Turkey March 12, 2022. Turkish Overseas Ministry/Handout through REUTERS

March 15 (Reuters) – Armenian Overseas Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has stated his nation is able to set up diplomatic relations and open its border with Turkey, the Turkish state-owned Anadolu information company reported on Tuesday.

Mirzoyan held talks with Turkish Overseas Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu at a diplomatic discussion board within the Turkish metropolis of Antalya on Saturday as a part of efforts to fix ties after a long time of animosity. Cavusoglu referred to as the assembly “productive and constructive”. learn extra

“Armenia is able to set up diplomatic relations and open borders with Turkey,” Anadolu quoted Mirzoyan as saying in an interview given final week. “I’m glad to listen to from my Turkish colleague that there’s the political will to guide the method in the direction of that objective.”

Saturday’s talks have been the primary sit-down assembly between the 2 nations’ overseas ministers since 2009.

The neighbours are at odds over a number of points, primarily the 1.5 million individuals Armenia says have been killed in 1915 in a genocide by the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor to fashionable Turkey.

Turkey accepts that many Armenians dwelling within the empire have been killed in clashes with Ottoman forces throughout World Conflict One, however contests the figures and denies the killings have been systematic or represent genocide.

Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Writing by Kevin Liffey, Enhancing by Alexandra Hudson

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