Türkiye is preparing to change the procedure for export documentation for goods shipped to Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Tuesday.

Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan was earlier heard in a hot-mic moment telling Pashinyan, who is currently campaigning with fellow Civil Contract party members across Yerevan ahead of the upcoming elections, that “the Turks are opening today, let’s prepare a welcoming text for the Foreign Ministry spokesperson.”

Reporters later asked Pashinyan to elaborate.

Pashinyan explained that the comment referred to changes in Türkiye’s export documentation procedures for shipments to Armenia.

He said that under previous Turkish regulations, Armenia was not included in the list of destination countries, which meant that goods were first registered as exports to a third country and only then re-exported to Armenia.

“There are many Turkish-made goods in Armenia, and this was an additional process — they were sent to another country, documented, and then brought here,” Pashinyan said.

Now, he said, the Turkish side is allowing Armenia to be directly listed as the country of destination in export documents.

“Now they are processing it in a way that Armenia is indicated as the country of destination. That is what he [Mirzoyan] meant,” the Prime Minister said.