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Armenia and Azerbaijan will have first formal contacts after a break of several months. Diplomats from the OSCE Minsk Group co-Chair countries will facilitate the meeting.

On October 24, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, who is in Mexico on an official visit, met with Francisco Arroyo Vieyra, the Deputy Chairman of the Lower Chamber of the Mexico's Senate, Armenian Foreign Ministry reports.

c, as diplomats from the Minsk Group struggle to organise a meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers.

EU-funded programme to facilitate dialogue between civil society, media and policy makers.

State Department sources confirmed Thursday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton relayed the U.S. Government's "strong disappointment" over Hungary's extradition of convicted Azerbaijani axe-murderer Ramil Safarov during a state visit by Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi to Washington this week, asbarez.com reports.

Resumption of military actions in the Karabakh conflict zone is possible only if U.S. unleashes large-scale Iranian war, Vladimir Zakharov, Director of the Institute of Political Studies of the Black Sea and Caspian Region, told ArmInfo.

Today it is important to continue the Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks as never before, Eric Rubin, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, told journalists in Yerevan on Thursday.

Armenia must be ready for Turkey's provocations on the threshold of the Armenian Genocide's centennial, Artak Shakaryan, turkologist, told media. Wednesday.

The OSCE Minsk Group is planning to organize a new meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers, Ambassador of France to Azerbaijan Pascal Meunier told APA.