Armenia is not ready to establish relations with Turkey with any preconditions, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan told Reuters news agency.

“We shall at the end of the day establish normal relations with Turkey and establishing those normal relations should be without any preconditions,” he said.

He said he was ready to normalize relations with Turkey, two months after he withdrew peace accords from parliament, blaming a Turkish lack of political will to end 100 years of hostility.

Speaking ahead of Friday’s centenary of the Armenian Genocide, Sargsyan said there should be no preconditions in restarting the peace process and would not insist the Turks accept they committed genocide.

Sargsyan said the reconciliation process could restart “when Turkish leadership is ready to establish normal relations without any preconditions.”

He had withdrawn the accords from parliament, he said, to send a “political message” to Turkey.

“The ratification of the protocols is something that we want, but it takes two to tango and it does not only depend on us,” he said.

US President Barack Obama is not expected to use the word “genocide” in a statement to mark the anniversary, something Sargsyan said was just to avoid angering an important ally.

“We, of course, would want Mr. Obama to use the word genocide in his statement,” Sargsyan said.

“It’s not that the United States do not recognize the genocide, they just do not want to use this particular word in order not to insult their ally Turkey.”