Yet another meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan with the Minsk Group is not causing much excitement but is necessary.

The statement came from Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov

Parliamentary Chairman David Usupashvili said Georgia should never again require such an act in the future because no one should be persecuted for political reasons.

The Azerbaijani web portal news.az recently carried an interview with the Director of LINKS Dennis Sammut in which he spoke about the current situation around the Karabakh conflict.

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan met on Thursday with the OSCE/ODIHR mission that will observe the Feb 18 presidential election in Armenia.

Baku insists it will not allow the operation of an airport in Nagorno-Karabakh without its permission. EU calls for a diplomatic solution to the issue.

The issue of the airport opening in the occupied lands of Azerbaijan requires a diplomatic solution, sources in EU reported again.

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President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy said.

Celebrations have been taking place in Tbilisi to mark the 80th birthday of the Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia, Illia II.