Armenia ditches normalisation deal with Turkey

The President of Armenia on Thursday ditched agreements that would have normalised relations with Turkey, in the latest blow to efforts to end decades-long enmity between the neighbours.


President Serzh Sarkisian issued a decree to stop the process begun in Zurich in 2009 that would have paved the way for the establishment of diplomatic ties, according to the presidency’s website.

Two key agreements were brokered then by the United States, France and Russia, but have never been ratified by the two countries’ parliaments.

At loggerheads over the how to define the World War I-era massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and Armenia have failed to establish diplomatic ties.

The border between the two countries has remained closed since Armenia gained independence following the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.
 [openews24/AFP]
  1/3/18
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• Η Αρμενία ακύρωσε τη συμφωνία ειρήνης με την Τουρκία