According to the Armenian government website, the prime minister presented the details of the informal meeting he had with Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev in Davos in January.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told visiting EU Council president Donald Tusk on Monday that he is convinced the Kremlin is seeking not only to return Ukraine to its zone of influence, but also to destroy its statehood.

European Commissioner Johannes Hahn held discussions with officials from the South Caucasus on the margins of the Munich Security Conference

The annual event in the Bavarian city will this year attract an unprecedented number of heads of state and foreign and defence ministers

Ahead of the meeting, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance will continue to call on Russia to come back into compliance with the INF Treaty

EU Special Representative Toivo Klaar, who is currently on a visit to Armenia, on Monday met prime minister Nikol Pashinyan to discuss the Karabakh issue, EU-Armenia relations and the regional situation

In this op-ed for commonspace.eu Richard Giragosian says that "despite the clearly more positive environment of the peace talks, there is a need to "mind the gap" between expectations and reality over the course of the Karabakh peace process. Such scepticism is not meant to diminish the importance of a welcome return to diplomacy over force of arms, however".

"Bright Armenia" has been accepted as an associate member of the Alliance of European Liberals and Democrats (ALDE). The decision was taken at a meeting of ALDE's Executive Council in Berlin on 9 February. "Bright Armenia" was represented at the Berlin meeting by its party leader Edmon Marukian.

The number of government ministries has been reduced from 17 to 12 and an Ambassador-at-large will be appointed for dealing with relations with diaspora communities

An Armenian mission made up of mine clearance experts, medical personnel and an accompanying security team has arrived in the Syrian city of Aleppo. A statement from the Armenian Ministry of Defence said that the mission was strictly humanitarian, and will be conducted only in areas where there was no ongoing fighting