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The OSCE Minsk Group co-Chair issued a statement following their meeting with the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister in Poland on Tuesday calling for an end to the spiral of violence in the Karabakh conflict zone.

What we have seen since the beginning of the year is something different: more serious, more sustained, and more dangerous.

23 January 2015: The Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk has expressed concern over the situation in Karabakh conflict zone. "Developments on the contact line are a cause for concern for the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, the Minsk Group Co-chairs and for myself," he told APA agency. Kasprzyk said he is receiving reports of increased "use of heavier weapons" in ceasefire violations and an increasing number of incursions across the border and the line of contact. "There is an increase in the number of casualties reported as well", he said.

President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili met on the margins of the World Economic Forum being held in the Swiss resort.

President Putin's spokesman contradicted an earlier statement by the Russian Foreign Minister, and said the soldier"will go on trial in Russia because he is a Russian citizen".

On 20 January 1990, 26,000 Soviet troops entered Baku and killed dozens of peaceful protesters. Soviet rule in Azerbaijan collapsed soon after.

Shock at the cold-bloodied murder of an Armenian family in Gyumri by a renegade Russian soldier continues to resonate among Armenian communities worldwide.

With the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process stalled, even the fragile cease-fire is now in danger. It is time for the co-Chair of the Minsk Process to change their tone in dealing with the conflict sides,

Turkey used the visit of the Azerbaijani president to highlight the special relations between the two countries.