Natig Jafarli is the second senior member of the "REAL Movement" to be imprisoned. Another REAL member, Ilgar Mammadov was arrested in February 2013 and remains in prison despite a finding by the European Court of Human Rights in his favor
EUSR Herbert Salber is currently visiting Azerbaijan as part of his mandate to maintain contact with the sides in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and support the international mediation for the peaceful resolution of the conflict
"I believe that both Armenia and Azerbaijan really want to find a way out of this situation in order to live in peace and harmony, to cooperate, and to grow their respective economies" - Putin
In introductory remarks before the meeting both Putin and Sargsyan hailed the the economic results of Armenia's first year of membership in the Eurasian Economic Union
The changes in the National Security Council are the latest in a series of purges of personnel in the military and security sector in Armenia and come hours before president Sargsyan leaves for Moscow to meet president Putin
The Baku Summit was a significant step in regional co-operation in South-West Eurasia but much work and political will is going to be necessary to put the ideas agreed between the leaders of the three countries into practice.