Armenian and Turkish special envoys meeting on border

YEREVAN, 30 July. /ARKA/. Special representatives for the normalization process between Armenia and Turkey, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Ruben Rubinyan and Ambassador Serdar Kılıç had today their 5th meeting on the Armenian-Turkish border, the Armenian Public Television reported. The meeting took place at Marghara border checkpoint.

There is no information yet about the content of their today's talks from official sources.

Earlier, the Armenian authorities announced the completion of the modernisation of ‘Margara’ customs checkpoint, which was estimated at 1 billion Armenian drams.

At their previous meeting on July 1, 2022 in Vienna, Austria, Rubinyan and Kılıç agreed to enable the crossing of the land border between Armenia and Turkey by third-country citizens visiting Armenia and Turkey respectively at the earliest date possible and decided to initiate the necessary process to that end.

They also agreed on commencing direct air cargo trade between Armenia and Turkey at the earliest possible date and decided to initiate the necessary process to that effect.

Furthermore, they discussed other possible concrete steps that can be undertaken towards achieving the ultimate goal of full normalization between their respective countries.

Finally, they reemphasized their agreement to continue the normalization process without preconditions.

On March 1, 2024, Armenian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Ararat Mirzoyan and Hakan Fidan at a meeting in Antalya reaffirmed their readiness to achieve full normalisation of relations and exchanged thoughts on possible concrete steps in this direction. -0-