Armenian foreign minister to visit Turkey as relations warm

Hurriyet Daily News with wires

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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.

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