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    Hürriyet, Turkey
    April 5 2009


    Armenian foreign minister to visit Turkey as relations warm

    ISTANBUL - Armenia's foreign minister will visit Turkey this week, the
    Interfax news agency reported Sunday, in the latest sign of a warming
    in relations between the two countries after decades of broken ties.

    Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian begins a two-day visit on
    Monday to attend a United Nation's cultural forum in Istanbul, the
    news agency said, citing the foreign ministry in Yerevan.

    Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic relations and their border has
    been closed for more than a decade over Armenia's invasion of 20
    percent territory of Azerbaijan - a frozen conflict legacy of the
    Soviet Union called Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Both countries have however been engaged in a normalization process
    since Turkish President Abdullah Gul paid a landmark visit to Yerevan
    last year to watch a World Cup qualifying football match between the
    countries national teams.

    Officials from the two countries have stepped up contacts in recent
    months, including Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian
    President Serzh Sarkisian, who held a landmark bilateral meeting in
    January.

    Nalbandian visited Turkey last November.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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