The soldier was named as nineteen year old Seyran Sargsyan. Armenian media says that he was killed as a result of Azerbaijani fire. No further details are available.
The 25 September referendum in the Kurdish Region may not lead to Kurdish independence any time soon, says Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed, but neighbouring countries are apprehensive.
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said in a statement that he hopes the planned summit would contribute to enhancing confidence and fostering the necessary political will among the parties to find peaceful compromise solutions to the key outstanding issues.
Welcoming the guest from Armenia Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili thanked Ara Babloyan for the help Armenia provided during a massive forest fire in Georgia's Borjomi Gorge this August.
Syria was the main issue on the agenda according to the Kremlin, and the two leaders agreed to continue a thorough exchange of views on the regional and bilateral agenda during the working meeting in Ankara later this week.
Edward Nalbandian of Armenia and Elmar Mammadyarov of Azerbaijan on Saturday met diplomats from France, Russia and the United States that are mediating a resolution of the Karabakh conflict in the framework of the OSCE Minsk Process
The co-Chairmen are expected to host a meeting with the participation of the two Foreign Ministers later on Saturday in an effort to unblock the current impasse in negotiations on the the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict