The charges are related to incidents in 2008 when government forces violently broke up mass protests against election fraud following presidential elections which saw a victory for Serzh Sargsyan.

Turkey has aspirations to become one of the world's ten largest economies, and the country has been pursuing an assertive foreign policy, challenging the domination of the UN by the five permanent members of the security council, and expanding its diplomatic footprint in Africa.

"It isn't important how this conflict originated. What matters is the loss of human lives, young human lives, that are the cost of this conflict", Anna Hakobyan said at a meeting in Moscow

According to Lavrov, BRICS attracts partners by its openness to constructive cooperation and "the impeccable respect for the United Nations Charter and basic principles of international law, including sovereign equality of States, commitment to the UN central role and indivisibility of security."

According to the Syrian News Agency, SANA, during the visit of Bibilov to Syria the two sides signed a Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation.

Turkey under President Erdogan aspires to be one of the top ten economies in the world, and this first high level participation of Turkey at a BRICS summit is unlikely to be the last.

Around 2400 people participated in the Samsung Bosphorus Cross Continental swim which is organised annually by the Turkish Olympic Committee.

The territory of South Ossetia seceded from Georgia in 1992, and in 2008 was officially recognised as an independent country by Russia and a handful of other countries. The rest of the international community still recognise South Ossetia as part of Georgia.

Armenian Defense Minister David Tonoyan said on Sunday "State-of-the-art Russian weapons have been completely supplied under a 200 million dollar credit."

Nineteen year old Anar Samad Alishov, a conscript soldier serving with the Azerbaijani army, was earlier reported to have been killed as a result of a violation of the ceasefire with Armenia, but no details were given