ArmInfo. Ankara stipulates relations with Yerevan for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. This was during a meeting with artists of Russia in St. Petersburg,  Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said.

At the same time he considered it strange that any country for the  establishment of relations with a neighbor determines this process by  the interests of a third state. "It was Turkey that closed the border  with Armenia, from our side it is open," he said.

The prime minister focused on the importance of international  recognition of the Armenian Genocide for Armenia. "We attach  importance not only to the international recognition of the Armenian  Genocide, but also to the prevention of genocides in the world as a  whole," Pashinyan said, stressing that the issue of recognizing the  Armenian Genocide for Armenia is a global struggle to prevent such  crimes in the world.  future. "We do not consider this issue in the  context of the Armenian-Turkish relations, and we are ready to  establish relations with Ankara without preconditions," Pashinyan  stressed.