Armenia is ready to establish diplomatic relations with Turkey without preconditions, RA Prime Minister said.

“We would be glad if our Turkish colleagues came to understand that having closed borders in the 21st century is nonsense,” Tigran Sargsyan said in an interview with BBC Russian.

The Prime Minister expressed hope that Turkey will operate within the framework of the Protocols signed in 2009 in Zurich, envisaging establishment of normal relations between the two countries.

In 2009, Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Turkey, Edward Nalbandian and Ahmet Davutoglu, signed the protocols on establishment of diplomatic relations and opening of the common border, however no real steps followed to implement the protocols due to Turkey’s attempts to bring forth Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement as a precondition for normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.