Turkey, Armenia hold 'constructive' first round of normalization talks
Following talks in Moscow on Friday, representatives for the two countries agreed to meet again without preconditions.
Armenia and Turkey agreed to continue talks without preconditions after a first round of meetings aimed at normalizing ties concluded in Moscow on Friday.
Ankara and Yerevan lack diplomatic relations. But in December, the neighboring countries agreed to name special envoys — former Turkish ambassador to the US Serdar Kilic and Armenia’s deputy parliament speaker Ruben Rubinyan — to lay the groundwork for normalization.
The Armenian and Turkish foreign ministries described the meeting between Rubinyan and Kilic on Friday as “positive and constructive."
The “parties agreed to continue negotiations without preconditions aiming at full normalization,” the ministries said. “Date and venue of their second meeting will be decided in due time through diplomatic channels.”
