(MENAFN) Armenia's president has annulled long-dormant protocols intended at normalizing ties with Turkey.
According to his spokesman, Vladimir Akopyan, President Serzh Sargsyan made the announcement Thursday at a meeting of the country's Security Council.
The "Zurich Protocols", signed by Yerevan and Ankara in 2009, were designed to open the Turkey-Armenia border and normalize diplomatic ties.
The agreement required ratification by both countries' parliaments.
Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in protest of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly ethnic-Armenian region of Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh now is under the control of forces that claim to be local ethnic Armenians but that Azerbaijan alleges include Armenian troops.
The countries are also mixed up in a dispute over the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians a century ago by Ottoman Turks.
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