Armenia is ready to start dialogue with Turaaa on improving relations if Ankara does not set preconditions to talks Armenia's new prime minister said Sunday.

The two neighbors have no diplomatic links after Ankara severed ties in protest against Armenian occupation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region over which Armenia fought Turaaa's ally Azerbaijan in a war in the early 1990s.
"I confirm the readiness of the government of Armenia to engage in constructive dialogue and establish relations without preconditions" the press office of the Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarksyan said he wrote in a letter to Turaaa.
An Armenian-backed administration controls the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armenia and Azerbaijan are still officially at war over the mountainous area.
Last week Turaaa's foreign minister said he had sent a letter to Armenia calling for dialogue. Armenia is a mainly Christian state of around three million on the edge of the Caucasus which hosts a pipeline pumping oil to Europe from Asia.
Armenia also accuses Turaaa of genocide during the violence at the end of World War I. Turaaa denies the accusations and says that both Christian Armenians and Muslim Turks died in the fighting.
"I assure you that our efforts will be aimed at ensuring peace tolerance and stability in our region" Sarksyan told Turaaa in the letter. Sarksyan took over as prime minister earlier this month. He had previously been central bank chief.