Babacan and President Abdullah Gul were to begin their landmark visit to Yerevan, with which Turkey has no diplomatic relations, later Saturday.
The football diplomacy is a significant move for two countries that have waged a bitter diplomatic battle over Armenia's attempts to have massacres of their people under the Ottoman Empire classified as genocide.
Babacan and Gul were due to land in the Armenian capital at 1200 GMT and meet Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian before the World Cup qualifier between Armenia and Turkey that is scheduled to begin at 1600 GMT.
"We don't have any diplomatic relations right now with the Armenians. What are we going to do about this? (It's) another area of discussion," for the Yerevan talks, Babacan told AFP late Saturday during an interview on the sidelines of a EU foreign ministers' meeting at Avignon, southern France
"I don't think we should raise expectations that high," for the talks, he added.
"But on the other hand, when we open the doors for dialogue that means we are ready to talk about the problems."
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