We do not consider recognition of genocde precondition: Armenian president

"I will go to Turkey for this football match if our border is opened or we are on the eve to achieve it," Sargsyan said.  

Term 'football diplomacy' appeared a year ago when the Turkish President Abdullah Gul arrived in Yerevan. A formal cause was a football match between teams of the two countries.   

The return football match will be held in Turkey in mid-October.

"We have agreements. I think that a normal, correct way for sides to fulfill their agreements. Unfortunately, I have not seen any great wiling or strive to fulfill these agreements," Sargsyan said.

He said that the Armenian still favors establishing relations without preliminary terms.

"We have not considered recognition of genocide as a preliminary term to establish relations," Sargsyan said.

/Trend News/