Armenia

If Paris continues to support Armenia, defending the law on "Armenian genocide", the membership of France in the OSCE Minsk Group will not make sense, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said in an interview with the Turkish ABHaber.

Baku remains committed to resolve the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan through negotiations, despite the fact that mediation efforts over 20 years were not always consistent and as yet not produced any results, the Azerbaijani Permanent Representative to the UN Agshin Mehdiyev said, ITAR-TASS reported.

Snowfall forced Yerevan’s Zvartnots international airport to cancel all the flights.

Azerbaijan urged the EU and the European Parliament to take a position based on the norms and principles of international law and to avoid "double standards" in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at a conference "EU-Azerbaijan: new horizons for the partnership" organized by the European People's Party in Brussels.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu discussed regional issues, including the situation in the South Caucasus with the U.S. congressmen in Washington, Turkish Ihlas agency reported.

The delegation, headed by Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev held a meeting with Armenian President Serzh Sagrsyan in Yerevan, Panorama.am. reported referring to the presidential press-service.

A closer partnership between the United Nations and the 56-member Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world’s largest regional security grouping, is vital, the Security Council heard today.

France’s position on the prompt resolution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict will stay stable regardless of the French supreme Constitutional Council’s decision on “Armenian genocide” law, Andre Reichardt, First Vice-President of the Regional Council of Alsace (France), Senator of Bas-Rhin told in an interview to Trend during his visit to Azerbaijan

A law criminalizing denial of the so-called "Armenian genocide", adopted by the French Senate at the end of last year, has good chances be canceled, member of the Senate Commission for International Affairs Nathalie Goulet told in an interview to Trend during the visit to Azerbaijan

The necessity for passing to a 100-percent proportional election system in the lead-up to the parliamentary elections is incomprehensible, Armenia’s Deputy Justice Minister Grigor Muradyan told news reporters on Thursday.

Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian is lying when he talks about the ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani armed forces, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.