Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said he is against a change in the format, but the conduct of the co-Chair limits the effectiveness of the Group.

Edward Shevardnadze, the former President of Georgia and ex Foreign Minister of the USSR has died in Tbilisi aged 86. Shevardnadze is credited to being one of the main architects of the end of the cold war and in the 1990s as President of Georgia helped to save the country from civil war and chaos. He resigned in 2003 and has since lived a quiet life in his house in the Ktasnisi District of Tbilisi.

The British Government policy of not selling weapons that can be used in the Karabakh conflict contrasts with Russia's policy of flooding the region with weapons.

Italy's young Prime Minister Matteo Renzi creates a stir with a speech in the European Parliament calling for Europe to rediscover its soul, history and values.

In their "Baku Declaration" Parliamentarians condemn Russia's annexation of Crimea and call for its reversal. The declaration also expresses deep concern at the fate of victims of politicised court cases in Azerbaijan.

The meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Baku highlights Azerbaijan's readiness to manoevre around complicated foreign and domestic political agendas in front of a home audience.

Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are now associate member states of the EU and partners in a free trade area. Despite many obstacles they had to overcome, the asspirations of millions of their citizens can now start to be fulfilled.

President Aliev, wearing combat fatigues, watched the exercises that involved 4000 personnel and hundreds of tanks, military vehicles, fighter planes and helicopters.

25 June: An Armenian soldier was killed last night as a result of Azerbaijani fire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. Armenian media named the soldier as 19 year old Armen Avetisyan. In a separate incident yesterday a tractor hit a mine in the Martuni district of the conflict zone. Two people were injured and were hospitalised.

Commonspace.eu political editor said the trips to Baku and Yerevan have not been easy for the head of the Russian diplomacy.