On May 7 the President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, had a meeting his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul in Prague. This was the second meeting of the two Presidents after Abdulla Gul's visit to Yerevan. The Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Turkey Edward Nalbandian and Ahmed Davudoghlu were present at the meeting, Public Radio of Armenia reported.
The Presidents of Armenia and Turkey positively assessed the talks in Prague. During the meeting the parties agreed to "honor all previous agreements and move forward towards the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations without preconditions and within a reasonable time frame."
"The meeting was useful. We agreed to respect the agreement reached," the Armenian President told reporters after the meeting. "Any precondition in the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations is excluded," President Sargsyan added.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations would establish stability in the South Caucasus, which derived from the interests of all the countries.