The Partnership Priorities will guide EU financial assistance to Armenia until 2020. For that period, the EU has earmarked around €160 million for Armenia to invest, among other areas, in education and innovation

President Ilham Aliyev "hailed the successful development of friendly and brotherly relations between Azerbaijan and Iran in different areas, including military and military-technical fields"

Javad Zarif and Mikheil Janelidze discussed issues related to bilateral relations, as well as the international situation, according to sources.

The President stressed the importance of Synod decisions, not solely in church and spiritual matters, but also in public life.

Azerbaijani media reported that the two men exchanged views on issues related to the Karabakh conflict and the situation on the line of contact in the Karabakh conflict zone.

EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Toivo Klaar, is in Baku on a two-day visit during which he is expected to meet government officials and representatives of civil society.

"Diplomatic efforts have managed to clear some of the air in the relations between Turkey and the west. An increasingly ambitious and assertive Turkey will need to be dealt with differently in the future. However, different should not be an excuse for indifference" , writes Dennis Sammut

"The Republic of Turkey and the United States, as allies and strategic partners, reaffirm their mutual and unequivocal commitment to each other's security and defense", says a joint statement issued in Ankara on Friday

Commonspace.eu political editor said that Russia and Azerbaijan usually prefer not to wash their dirty linen in public, but on this occasion they opted to do so.

"The South Caucasus is facing an infrastructure development boom. However, Armenia is in stark isolation, with no major project passing through the country.", writes Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed