Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu revealed that his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan will visit Turkey in March, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Çavuşoğlu said that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accepted Turkey's invitation for Mirzoyan and Special Envoy Ruben Rubinyan to participate in the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) scheduled to take place March 11-13. 

"The Armenian Foreign Minister and the Special Envoy Ruben Rubinyan were invited, and Pashinyan lastly said they could participate in ADF," Çavuşoğlu said. 

"We would welcome this, because Azerbaijan is coming too," he added. "So let Azerbaijan state its views and Armenia state its opinions too, and this can be part of the confidence-building measures." 

The move follows Ankara and Yerevan's appointment of special envoys for normalisation talks that could pave the way for establishing diplomatic ties between the two neighbouring countries. These latest talks were the first efforts between them to restore links since a 2009 peace accord that was never ratified. 

The two countries have had tense relations for 30 years now. Armenia maintains that the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottomans in 1915 was genocide, while Turkey disputes the figures and denies that what happened amounted to genocide. 

Turkey called for a rapprochement after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, when Armenia lost control over large parts of the disputed region to Azerbaijan. One reason Turkey had for decades refused to normalise ties with Armenia was its previous occupation of those regions. Azerbaijan has also not opposed normalisation efforts. 

Both Turkey and Armenia described the first round of normalisation talks between their special envoy earlier this month as "positive and constructive."