On Saturday (15 June), Col-General Hasanov held a meeting with senior officials of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of defence to review results of recent military drills held in Azerbaijan

There has been an uneasy situation at various points on the border and in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone in recent weeks with two Armenian soldiers and two Azerbaijani soldiers reportedly killed.

Azerbaijan First Vice president and First Lady, Mehriban Alyeva has sent condolences on the death of the widow of Azerbaijan's former president, Abdulfaz Elchebey, even as state media was marking the occasion of his removal from power

In this comment, the political editor of commonspace.eu says that the message of the European Union, to the region and beyond, is that its engagement with the South Caucasus is ambitious and long lasting.

This is the fourth person reportedly killed in incidents between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces on the line of contact in the Karabakh conflict zone in the last two weeks.

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said at the opening ceremony "We continue to work for stability, peace and tranquility, which will be extremely beneficial for our countries as well as the region"

According to the prime minister's press service the two discussed the Karabakh conflict and conflict resolution process.

Reconnaissance quadcopters have assumed combat duty in Russian Southern Military District's units in the North Caucasus and the South Caucasus for the first time.

According to Turkish forward Burak Yılmaz, the Icelandic authorities made the team wait more than three hours at passport control and subjected them to strict security checks, repeatedly searching the players' belongings thoroughly.

The soldier was named as Elgar Vugar Khalilov. The exact circumstances of the killing were not reported, but an Azerbaijani Defence Ministry statement blamed what it called "Armenian provocations".