Patriarch Kirill is probably the only senior Russian personality that is able to visit London these days and still be accorded an audience with the Queen.

Armenia remains dissatisfied with the support of its CSTO allies in its conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh

Earlier, an aide to president Putin, Yuri Ushakov had indicated that the summit would adopt a text on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. But subsequently Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri Peskov said when asked, "No, not today".

Nawaz Sharif met President Aliev this morning, after an official welcome ceremony. Pakistan has traditionally been a strong supporter of Azerbaijan in the international arena

Referring to Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Trandniestr and Nagorno-Karabakh the German Minister said on the European continent there should not be any blind spots for monitoring human rights.

Elections were held in Georgia on 8 October, to elect a new 150-member parliament. The elections passed off peacefully, except for a handful of isolated incidents, and resulted in a convincing victory for the incumbent Georgian Dream (GD) party.

The Vice-Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament, and chairperson of the parliamentary Committee on human rights, Bahar Muradova met with the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Michael Jorg Link.

The decision, taken at a meeting of the Political Council of the party on Tuesday night, has ended several days of political speculation about the future strategy of the party.

Armenian sources say that a soldier of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was killed on Tuesday afternoon (11 October). The dead soldier was identified as 27 year old Sanasar Grigorian.

The three presidents addressed the 23rd World Energy Congress in Istanbul. Putin and Erdogan later signed the strategic Turkish Stream gas pipeline agreement