Ruben Rubinyan and Serdar Kılıç, Armenian and Turkish special representatives, respectively, appointed to facilitate the normalization of bilateral relations, will have another meeting on Tuesday, Armenian Foreign Ministry press secretary Ani Badalyan told the Russian Interfax news agency.
“The fifth meeting of the two countries’ representatives will take place at the border between Armenia and Turkey on July 30,” Badalyan said.
Armenia and Turkey have no diplomatic relations, and their joint border has been closed since 1993 at Ankara’s initiative over the conflict in Karabakh. The first meeting between an Armenian and a Turkish representative on the normalization process between the two countries took place in Moscow on January 14, 2022.
Rubinyan and Kılıç, appointed in late 2021, agreed earlier to ensure that third-country citizens are allowed to cross the Armenian-Turkish land border and to launch direct cargo flights between the two countries as early as possible.
Armenia and Turkey signed an agreement in 2009 to normalize relations, which would have led to the opening up of their shared border.
But Armenia never ratified the agreement and in 2018 ditched the process.