Obama delivered his message personally to Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan and Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian when he met them at a reception in Istanbul for guests attending an international forum promoting understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds.
"On the margins of tonight's Alliance of Civilizations dinner, the president met the foreign ministers of Turkey, Armenia and Switzerland to commend their efforts toward Turkish-Armenian normalization and to urge them to complete an agreement with dispatch," a senior U.S. official was quoted by Reuters as telling reporters in Istanbul.
Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic relations, and their border has been closed for more than a decade over Armenia's invasion of territory that accounts for 20 percent of Azerbaijan
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