High level discussions are going on in New York to try to resolve the Karabakh conflict, but on the ground violence escalates.

The President of Turkey visited Moscow to participate in the opening of a new Mosque, and for discussions with the Russian leadership on Syria and other issues.

Nikolay Bordyuzha, Secretary General of the CSTO alliance said that 2500 are currently fighting with the terrorist group Islamic State in the Middle East, and that sooner or later they will be returning home.

On the occasion of the national holiday the Armenian president paid tribute to those who died in the military service of the country at a ceremony in Yerevan.

In a telegram to the South Ossetian leadership Putin promised more support to the self-declared Republic.

If there is ever to be a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Shusha/i will be one of the more difficult issues to be resolved.

A young Armenian and his young family have arrived in Baku seeking political asylum, claiming they could no longer live in Armenia.

Armenian Foreign Minister Nalbandian told senior OSCE official that Armenia is committed to an exclusively peaceful settlement of the conflict through the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs mediation.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Mammadyarov discussed the conflict with visiting Turkish counterpart Sinirlioglu. The Turkish Foreign Minister on his part called on the international community to step up its efforts for a solution.

President Serzh Sargsyan informed leaders of the alliance, meeting in Dushambe, of the threat of escalation of tension on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and in the Karabakh conflict zone, and the risks that they constitute for the entire South Caucasus region.