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The EU Council called "for renewed efforts to promote the peaceful settlement of conflicts in the region on the basis of the principles and norms of international law". "The EU remains committed in its support to the territorial integrity, independence and sovereignty of all its partners. The Council recalls the EU's role in conflict resolution and confidence building efforts in support of the existing agreed formats and processes."

The European Union will start negotiations with Azerbaijan on a comprhensive agreement which will form a contractual arrangement between the two sides. A decision was adopted by the Council of the EU on Monday. Baku has welcomed the decision

A new electortal law, adopted earlier this year, provides a new framework, which has on the whole been welcomed by local political forces and the international community. However, as political analyst Sos Avetisyan writes from Yerevan, in this commentary for commonspace.eu, the government still has subtle ways in which it can influence the outcome of next spring's parliamentary elections

President Ilham Aliev, wearing military fatigues, inspected command and control capabilities of the Azerbaijani army, and observed Armenian positions on the front line.

Mehmet Simsek told a meeting of business leaders that Europe is a reference point for Turkey as it moves forward its democratic standards. "We want to improve the rule of law and the quality of our institutions. Europe has advanced standards in this regard", he said.

At an event in the European Parliament in Brussels, Port of Baku Director-General, Taleh Ziyadov, said legislation to be presented by the end of the year will turn the new facility into a Free Economic Zone with special legal status

In an acceptance speech in New York in the early hours of Wednesday, Trump said: "I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for every American"

At a meeting this morning Armenian Foreign Minister Nalbandian and Italian Foreign Minister Gentiloni discussed issues related to the Karabakh conflict, the new Armenian-EU framework agreement, as well as various bilateral and international issues.

Paolo Gentiloni earlier had meetings in Tbilisi with the Georgian leadership during which he expressed his support for Georgia's European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations