The Russian president participated in the summit of the Eurasian Economic Union, which was held in the Armenian capital on 1 October

A publication summerising the round table meeting and public lecture organised by LINKS Europe and The Hague Humanity Hub on 27 June 2019 is now available on the commonspace.eu archive

President Putin of Russia, President Rouhani of Iran and the prime minister of Singapore are among those attending the summit

A new publication from the Foreign Policy Centre and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee brings together different points of view on how to deal with the unrecognised entities in the European Union's neighbourhood

Sergei Lavrov and Davit Zalkeliani met in New York on Thursday in a meeting mediated by the Swiss government

"The Co-Chairs and the Ministers continued their discussion of additional measures to reduce tensions and sustain an atmosphere conducive to peace and favorable to substantive talks", a statement posted on the OSCE website said.

The Defence Ministry told the Armenian media that heavy military equipment is involved in the exercises. It is understood that military elements in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone are also involved in the manoevres.

The foreign ministries of the two countries issued short statements informing about the meeting but giving little detail

Ahead of a scheduled meeting of the Ministers of foreign affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan in New York an incident leaves one Azerbaijani soldier killed with the two sides giving contradictory accounts of what happened.

Benyamin Poghosyan discusses recent events in the Gulf, and says that neighbouring countries are concerned about the implications of a military confrontation. For Armenia the crisis comes on top of other foreign policy challenges.