The heads of Armenia and Turkey met in the United States
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with Turkish President Recep Erdogan in New York. The meeting took place at the Turkish House, where the Consulate General and the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the UN are located.
 
The Turkish leader presented Pashinyan with his book “A More Just World is Possible.” According to Erdogan, Turkey actively supports the establishment of a lasting peace between Yerevan and Baku and “the establishment of friendly relations in a new historical era.” The interlocutors also discussed the steps taken within the framework of the process of normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations.
 
After this event, opposition faction “Armenia” MP Gegham Manukyan noted that Pashinyan went to meet with Erdogan on the eve of the anniversary of the start of the 44-day war, in which Türkiye actively helped Azerbaijan.
 
"Nikol Pashinyan did not meet during the work of the UN General Assembly, nor at the UN headquarters, where there are many halls and specially built sites for bilateral meetings. He went to a skyscraper called the Turkish House on First Avenue, where the permanent mission of Turkey and its consulate general in New York are based," the MP emphasized. He added that Armenian citizens first learned about this meeting from the Turkish press.
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