The Deputy Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, Lena Nazaryan, said women must serve in decision-making positions because they make up half of the population. Anything else is unfair.
The three diplomats are trying to mediate the holding of the next meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Bratislava in early December
Welcoming the Georgian leader in Yerevan Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed confidence that the development of Armenian-Georgian relations will continue without external influence.
The 7th Meeting of the Council of the Turkish Speaking Countries opened in Baku, Azerbaijan on Tuesday 15 October, with the participation of Azerbaijani prime minister Ilham Aliyev, Turkish president recip Tayip Edrogan and other leaders from Turkic speaking countries.
Dr Benyamin Poghosyan argues in this op-ed that the international community should pay much more attention to confidence and security building measures as the only viable way to prevent the resumption of large scale hostilities in the short and medium term.
No further details of the Aliyev-Pashinyan conversation have been released, and so far there has not been any reference to it from Azerbaijani official sources. The spokesperson of the Armenian prime minister has confirmed that the conversation has taken place..
In a statement, the State Security Service said that it continues its fight against the involvement of Azerbaijani citizens under the influence of radical religious ideas in terrorist organizations and armed conflicts.It said that four persons have been charged and are being held under preventive arrest.