On 6 June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of northern France in Normandy leading to the defeat of fascism and nazism in Europe eleven months later.
G7 Communique states that "Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea, and actions to de-stabilise eastern Ukraine are unacceptable and must stop."
The President of the Swiss Confederation and current head of the OSCE proposes the "start of structured negotiations leading to a peace agreement".
The President of the Swiss Confederation and current Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE will focus on the unresolved conflicts and human rights concerns during his visit.
The Armenian leader said that the issue of Karabakh joining the Eurasian Economic Union as part of Armenia was never under discussion. He described the comments of the Kazakh President in Astana as "unpleasant" but not damaging.
At a meeting with international experts, held in Bern earlier this week, the diplomats were encouraged to take bolder measures in their efforts to break the current impasse, and help bring the sides to the next step of negotiations.
In the first in a series of reports for commonspace.eu, Tbilisi based freelance journalist Joseph Alexander Smith examines the political landscape ahead of the poll.
In a tough speech marking the anniversary of the establishment of the first Azerbaijani Republic in 1918 the President said that "the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh regime will never be given a legal status"