According to the Kremlin twitter feed the two sides will discuss bilateral relations, the Karabakh conflict and the international situation.

President Giorgi Margvelashvili has set the date for the elections in a decree which was countersigned by Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili

Emergency services fought against forest fires in Armenia and Georgia, whilst in Russia's Rostov on Don thirty houses were destroyed when a gas cylinder exploded. There are no reports of any fatalities in the incidents.

President Ilham Aliyev said agriculture was a top priority for the government and noted that new opportunities in the sector were helping to eliminate unemployment in the country's regions

The two sides signed a memorandum of undersanding defining the main directions of cooperation between free trade areas in Armenia and Iran, in particular to ensure development of free trade areas of Meghri and Aras.

Leaders of the South Caucasus countries join in condemnation of attack in Barcelona and extend solidarity to Spanish government and people.

According to the Geostat figures, Azerbaijan invested USD 558 million dollars in Georgia's economy, and Turkey USD 203.5 million, out of a total direct foreign investment in 2016 of USD 1565.9 million.

China's growing involvement in the South Caucasus may provide Armenia a much needed flexibility in its foreign policy, argues Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed for commonspace.eu

By progressing on the path to becoming a truly European country Georgia is challenging Russia's narrative, and this may result in the Russian people questioning their own governance model, argues George Mchedlishvili in this op-ed.

In a message, Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili said "a day will come when we will build a strong, developed, democratic and peaceful state together with Abkhazians and Ossetians".