According to the press service of the European External Action Service, Morgherini "advocated Prime Minister Pashinyan’s full engagement in negotiations without preconditions, under the auspices of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs".

The president of the European Council on Tuesday met with visiting Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan to discuss bilateral relations and regional issues

The president told Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak Azerbaijan was the side most interested in the earliest peaceful solution of the Karabakh conflict but Armenia did not show any serious intentions to conduct substantive negotiations.

Speaking at the European parliament the Armenian prime minister hailed "the constructive and balanced approach of the European Union" on the Karabakh issue, He also said that the CEPA agreement with the EU was of tremendous importance for Armenia's reform agenda.

Amid talk of the need to prepare public opinion for an eventual peace over Nagorno-Karabakh the head of a leading think tank in Yerevan questions recent statements by some politicians

The Azerbaijani photo journalist, whose imprisonment two years ago triggered widespread international condemnation, was released from jail on Saturday (2 March) after serving in full his two year prison sentence.

In a statement issued in Vienna on Friday (1 March), the co-Chairmen also welcomed the developing discussions in the region about preparing populations for peace.

Speaking to hundreds of members of the large and influential Armenian community in Iran gathered at the Ararat Sports Complex in Tehran Pashinyan told the enthusiastic audience “Our destiny is no longer in the west, north or south, but in our hands”.

"If the parties are willing to start preparing their own people for peace, they should start by eliminating the myths that the societies have been creating for many years, because these myths have become the most serious obstacles to real peace in the future"

In the Azerbaijani capital president Salome Zurabishvili had a tete-a-tete meeting with president Ilham Aliyev, after which the two sides held discussions in an expanded format with the participation of their respective delegations.