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On 11 September President Bako Sahakyan in accordance with Article 100, clause 1, paragraph 1.1 of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Constitution, presented the candidacy of Ara Haroutunyan to the National Assembly for obtaining the parliament's consent to appoint him head of the republic's Cabinet of Ministers, the Central Information Department of the Office of the Artsakh Republic President reported.

Hasan Cemal, the grandson of one of the executors of the Armenian Genocide Cemal Pacha, has published a book '1915: the Armenian Genocide', the Turkey-based Agos daily reported. Hasan Cemal is a columnist for Milliyet newspaper. In 2008, he visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan.

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan's statement in support of Azerbaijan once again proves that the world community deals with a country that openly supports Armenophobia and racism, says Eduard Sharmazanov, Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, a member of the Republican Party of Armenia.

Today President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan received the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Philippe Lefort.

Armenia has not yet been officially invited to join the Eurasian Union as the discussions concerning the format and mechanisms of the union and the obligations of its members are still underway, Armenia's Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said in the parliament on Wednesday.

The international community fully understands Yerevan's stance on the Karabakh peace process, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in Parliament when replying to Head of Heritage Faction Rouben Hakobyan's question.

Thiis article was first published in the Russian Newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta. The english version is reprinted fron News.az.

"Our stance on Upper Karabakh will continue as in the past. As an intervener in the process, we will continue to be on the side of Azerbaijan," Erdogan said at a joint press conference with the Azerbaijani President Ilham Alivey at the end of a meeting of the Turkey-Azerbaijan High Level Strategic Cooperation Council in Qabala, Sondakika reports.

On 11 September Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan met personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, NKR President's press-service reports.