ITAR-TASS News Agency
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July 6, 2004 Tuesday 3:38 PM Eastern Time
Armenia sets no prelim terms for opening borders with Turkey
By Svetlana Alexandrova, Alexandra Urusova
MOSCOW
Armenia “has set no preliminary terms for opening its borders with
Turkey. Our borders are open,” Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanyan said on Tuesday. Oskanyan is on an official visit in Moscow.
“It is not Armenia that should open the borders, they are open from
our side,” he stressed. According to Oskanyan, Yerevan would like to
have its relations with Istanbul “restored without any preliminary
terms.”
“We wish Turkey would open the borders from its side,” the Armenian
foreign minister concluded.