Armenian foreign minister to visit Turkey as relations warm

Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian begins a two-day visit on Monday to attend a United Nation's cultural forum in Istanbul, the news agency said, citing the foreign ministry in Yerevan.
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Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic relations and their border has been closed for more than a decade over Armenia's invasion of 20 percent territory of Azerbaijan - a frozen conflict legacy of the Soviet Union called Nagorno-Karabakh.

 

Both countries have however been engaged in a normalization process since Turkish President Abdullah Gul paid a landmark visit to Yerevan last year to watch a World Cup qualifying football match between the countries national teams.Â
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Officials from the two countries have stepped up contacts in recent months, including Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian, who held a landmark bilateral meeting in January.
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Nalbandian visited Turkey last November.

 

 

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