Ramazan Samadov says that Nasimi's ideas of free spiritual choice and principle of universal love guided the poet towards tolerance, looking beyond boundaries. The "year of Nasimi" will provide an excellent opportunity for his poems and messages to be enjoyed and appreciated.

The Armenian Parliament met for its first session on Monday (14 January), following early parliamentary elections held on 9 December which resulted in a landslide victory for the My Step alliance led by prime minister Nikol Pashinyan. .

The meeting is part of the latest efforts to restart negotiations on the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and will be mediated by diplomats from the three OSCE Minsk group co-chair countries

The next phase of negotiations on the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict is expected to see the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan meeting in a major European city in the next days, with the mediation of the three OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries

Deputy Foreign Minister, Mahmud Mamed Guliev said that the next set of meetings will take place shortly and will cover all the main areas, namely political and security issues, trade and investment issues and various sectoral issues.

South Ossetian leader, Anatoli Bibilov, on Thuesday (10 January) met in Caracas with the president of El Salvador, Salvador Sanchez Seren. Both were attending the inauguration of Venezuelan president Maduro, where the leader of Abkhazia was also present.

The court said that "it had not been possible to establish 'beyond reasonable doubt' that the State itself had been responsible for the very serious invasion of Ismayilova's privacy", but found the state guilty of not investigating attempts to blackmail her

Addressing a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna the Slovak Foreign Minister said Ukraine will be a priority for the chairmanship, but he also noted positive developments around the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, Transdniestr and Georgia

The terminal is the latest investment of SOCAR in Turkey where it also owns a petrochemical complex and an oil refinery among other assets.

In many countries people are returning back to work this week after a long Christmas and new year holiday. In Armenia, prime minister Nikol Pashinyan reminded his countrymen that work is the solution to their problems.