Turkey is ready to normalize relations with France despite continued bilateral tensions over several issues, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Thursday.

The top diplomat also added that he had a “very constructive phone conversation” with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian.

“We agreed that we should work on a roadmap to normalize the relations,” Çavuşoğlu told reporters after a meeting with Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva in Lisbon.

Portugal has just taken over the EU’s rotating presidency.

“If France is sincere, Turkey is ready to normalize ties,” he underlined.

Relations between Turkey and France have deteriorated over the Eastern Mediterranean, but the two allies disagree on other major issues, including the conflicts in Syria, Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.