Armenia’s foreign minister to attend Turkish president’s inauguration
26.08.2014,
10:50
Armenia’s foreign minister Edward Nalbandyan will attend the ceremony of Turkish president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's inauguration, says the facebook page of the Armenian foreign ministry.
YEREVAN, August 26. /ARKA/. Armenia’s foreign minister Edward Nalbandyan will attend the ceremony of Turkish president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's inauguration, says the facebook page of the Armenian foreign ministry.
Erdogan’s swearing-in is scheduled for August 28.
There are no diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey: the border has been closed since 1993 initiated by official Ankara. The complications in the countries’ relations are caused particularly by Ankara’s support to Azerbaijan in Karabakh conflict and its overreaction to the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Empire being acknowledged across the world.
An Armenia-Turkish reconciliation was initiated by Armenian president in autumn 2008. On October 10, 2009, the two foreign ministers signed the protocol about establishing diplomatic relations in Zurich to be ratified by the countries’ parliaments. On April 22 2010 Armenia’s president Sargsyan suspended the ratification process saying Turkey was not ready to continue the process (ratification by Turkey’s parliament was frozen). –0—
