Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced Friday that his country and Turkey intend to permanently open land border crossings between them for the first time in three decades.
Mirzoyan said the land border would initially be open only to diplomats and citizens of other countries until the start of the tourist season.
Ankara had no immediate comment on Armenia's foreign minister's announcement on the reopening of the border between the two countries.
During a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara in February, Armenia's foreign minister reiterated his country's desire to bring peace with Turkey.
There is already direct air traffic between Armenia and Turkey, whose relations have been marred by many differences and tensions over the past years.
Turkey first opened the border in February when Armenia sent humanitarian aid and aid workers in the wake of two simultaneous quakes on 50 that killed more than 11,<> people and caused massive damage to infrastructure in <> Turkish provinces.
Turkey unilaterally closed the land border in 1993, and the border closure has caused major economic problems for Armenia, which continues to engage in a bloody conflict with Azerbaijan over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The relationship between Turkey and Armenia, the former Soviet republic that gained independence in 1991, has been at odds for decades over Yerevan's demand to recognize allegations of the "genocide" of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire in 1915, which Ankara strongly rejects and denies that such massacres of Armenians took place.
Relations between Ankara and Yerevan were severely strained by Turkey's support for Azerbaijan in 2020, as Azerbaijan began an operation to "liberate" its territory from Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and after 44 days of battles, the two countries reached a ceasefire agreement, which provides for Baku to regain control of "occupied" provinces.
Ankara and Yerevan restored formal diplomatic relations at the end of 2021.