YEREVAN AND ANKARA SIGN ‘ROAD MAP’

ArmInfo
2009-04-23 08:53:00

ArmInfo. On April 22, official Yerevan and Ankara signed a so-called
"road map" in Switzerland which enables to establish diplomatic
relations between Armenia and Turkey. The document signed has been
already called "historical" in both countries, ‘Vesti’ TV channel
reported.

According to the source, the document has been signed under mediation
of Switzerland. Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey were
interrupted in 1993, that was caused by the events in Nagorno Karabakh,
when Ankara openly supported Azerbaijan. The fact of international
recognition of the Armenian Genocide has become an additional
stumbling-block in bilateral relations. It is interesting that the
document has been signed 2 days before the Day of Commemoration of
the Genocide victims marked in Armenia on April 24. Official contacts
between the two states have started very recently.

President of Turkey Abdullah Gul visited Yerevan in September, 2008,
on invitation of the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to jointly watch
a football match between the national teams of Armenia and Turkey.