With Coronavirus spreading fast in Iran, in the South Caucasus there is a need for efficient, transparent and professional action on the part of governments, and a calm and co-operative response from their citizens, argues Dennis Sammut in this week's commentary.
A defiant Vano Merabishvili told media and well wishers who were at the prison gate to meet him, that the current government will be out of power in less than a year.
According to Armenian sources the prime minister attached importance to the involvement of civil society in Nagorno-Karabakh in confidence building activities, and said this will contribute to a constructive atmosphere to in the negotiation process.
The public debate between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Munich on Saturday was not there to be won or lost, but was itself a confidence-building measure, argues Dennis Sammut in this week's Monday Commentary
This was the first time that the leaders of the two countries engaged in a public discussion with each other on what is one of the most sensitive issues for their respective societies.