YEREVAN May 9
HIGHLIGHT: Armenia is ready to begin diplomatic relations with Turkey without preliminary conditions, but expects that Ankara will not put forward similar conditions, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a news conference in Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital of Stepanakert on Wednesday.
YEREVAN, May 9. /TASS/. Armenia is ready to begin diplomatic relations with Turkey without preliminary conditions, but expects that Ankara will not put forward similar conditions, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a news conference in Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital of Stepanakert on Wednesday.
“We are ready to begin diplomatic relations with Turkey without any preliminary conditions, but Ankara should not set pre-conditions concerning Nagorno-Karabakh, either,” he said.
“Along with this, we are set to push for recognition of the Armenian genocide at the global level,” he added.
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