Commentary: Benyamin Poghosyan discusses current difficulties between Turkey and some of the member states of NATO, but argues that Turkey and the Atlantic alliance share vital common interests, and any action that will seriously jeopardise Turkey-NATO relations is unlikely.
A statement by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said the two sides expressed hope that talks on a new partnership agreement will be successfully concluded ahead of the next summit of the EU Eastern Partnership countries scheduled for later this year.
In a direct reference to a youth conference being organised in Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenian organisations, the spokesperson for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said that these are Azerbaijani occupied territories and foreigners should not go there without Baku's permission.
The diplomats representing the three co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group held discussions on Monday with the President of the self-declared nagorno-karabakh Republic, Bako Sahakian, in Stepanakert
The three diplomats, representing France, Russia and the United States, accompanied by the Special Representative of the Austrian Chairmanship of the OSCE will also be travelling to Nagorno-Karabakh. They are due in Baku next week.
The Head of the EU Delegation in Baku, Melana Mard was speaking at the launch of a new EU funded vocational training centre in Baku. It has also been announced that the next round of EU-Azerbaijan negotiations on a new framework agreement will be held next week.