"Turkey: No opening border with Armenia before normalization of relations
The New Anatolian / Ankara
Turkish officials decisively informed U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried that Ankara would not open a border gate with Yerevan unless there was a normalization of ties between Turkey and Armenia.
Fried, who paid an official visit to Ankara, met with Turkish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ali Tuygan and Deputy Undersecretary Ahmet Uzumcu late Thursday. During the meeting, he urged Ankara to open its border gate with Armenia in order to facilitate the peace process in the divided-enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, still a point of contention between Armenia and Azerbaijan."
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