EUSR Toivo Klaar, on Wednesday (7 November) met in Baku with the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to discuss issues related to the Karabakh conflict, regional matters and EU-Azerbaijan relations.
Security of Crimea's territory and Russia's interests in the Black Sea has been ensured, says a report in the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" (Red Star), the mouthpiece of the Russian Defence Ministry on Tuesday
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev visited territory in the district of Aghdam on Monday (5 November). In symbolic moves aimed at reaffirming the regions connection with Azerbaijan president Aliyev launched projects aimed at supporting traditional crafts associated with Nagorno-Karabakh
In an impassioned video appeal the leader of Georgian Dream (GD) party, Bidhzina Ivanishvili, called on the Georgian people not to lose the gains achieved in the last six years, but also promised that henceforth he will himself play a more direct role in the governing of the country.
Armenian media reports said that prime minister Nikol Pashinyan on Sunday visited the line of contact in the Karabakh conflict zone. Earlier the prime minister had written on his facebook page that he was going on holiday
Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz met president Ilham Aliyev on Sunday. The prince is one of the most senior Saudi officials to visit Azerbaijan in recent times. The prince has in last days visited a number of other countries in the region
The Government of Ukraine and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople have signed an agreement on co-operation and collaboration. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I signed the agreement in Istanbul on Saturday during the official visit of president Poroshenko to Turkey.
Opposition sources say the main issues during the one-hour audience were the presidential election and the draft law on cultivation and export of cannabis.