ArmInfo. Armenia is ready to establish diplomatic relations with Turkey but without any preliminary conditions concerning Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Monday, Tass reports.
"We are ready to establish direct relations with Turkey without any preliminary conditions and hope that Turkey takes the same position," he said.
"However relations with Turkey are linked with the problem of Nagorno- Karabakh, and a third country. I mean Azerbaijan," he noted.
While visiting Baku in September, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that relations with Armenia could not be improved until the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was settled. In his words, Armenia should not count on opening the border with Turkey as long as "it is occupying 20% of Azerbaijan's territory and is hampering the return of one million Azerbaijanis to their home land."