Armenia has sent humanitarian aid to earthquake-stricken Turkey across the long-closed border separating the two historic enemies, the government in Yerevan said.
Turkey briefly opened its border with Armenia on Saturday to receive humanitarian aid sent by the Armenian government to victims of the devastating earthquakes in southeastern Turkey.
The Armenian authorities rejected on Tuesday opposition claims that they are not doing enough to unblock the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, saying that it is controlled by Russian peacekeepers.
The Turkish government has confirmed that officials from Turkey and Armenia met at the closed border between the two states in early November to discuss practical modalities of its planned partial opening, the Armenian service of RFE/RL reports. Turkish and Armenian envoys reached agreements to open the border to citizens of third countries and to
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian may meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan next week on the sidelines of a European summit in Prague, a senior Armenian official confirmed on Thursday.