In a speech at the start of the parade President Ilham Aliyev said that "Azerbaijan will never accept the occupation of its territories and will restore its territorial integrity".
Speaking live on facebook on Monday evening (25 June) Nikol Pashinyan said that since he assumed the office of Prime Minister of Armenia the number of cease fire violations has been unusually low when compared to previous times.
Recip Tayip Erdogan has plenty of political shrewdness, but time will tell if now that he has unquestioned power, he can translate this into statesmanship and wisdom, says Dennis Sammut in this commentary
Recip Tayip Erdogan has been re-elected President of Turkey securing 52.5% of the votes in a hotly contested election. Fifty million Turks cast their vote in the poll, which also gave the coalition led by the AK party a majority in parliament.
Polling in Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections began on Sunday, with 56,322,632 registered voters and 180,065 ballot boxes across the country.
Apart from Russia, the other 14 countries that opposed the resolution were Armenia, Bolivia, Belarus, Burundi, Cuba, North Korea (DPRK), Iran, Myanamar, Nicaragua, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabue.
The Earl Howe, UK Minister of State for Defence, hailed good relations between UK and Azerbaijan armed forces during peacekeeping operations, and paid tribute to the Azerbaijani men and women who fought in WWII