Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has positively assessed his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling for the restoration of railway connections and the opening of borders between the two countries.
In an interview with TRT World during COP31 in Antalya, Pashinyan said the two sides had established a constructive dialogue, Factor.am reports.
“Today, we had a very positive meeting with President Erdogan. A positive dialogue has developed between us, and we look forward to further developing our relations. Now we need to repair the railway between our countries and open the borders. We are working in that direction,” he said.
During their meeting on the sidelines of COP31, Pashinyan and Erdogan discussed the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, emphasizing the importance of advancing the process and bringing it to its logical conclusion.
Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu has stated that Ankara has completed the preparations necessary to restore land border and railway connections with Armenia. However, Turkey is awaiting a final agreement between Yerevan and Baku before opening the border, Ermenihaber reports.
According to Uraloglu, Ankara is also taking Baku’s concerns into account. He added that, in his assessment, the opening of the border would not take long.
Turkey has kept its land border with Armenia closed since 1993. A new normalization process began in late 2021. The two countries subsequently agreed to open their land border to citizens of third countries, but the agreement has yet to be implemented.
