The presence of a small Georgian team at the Sochi Olympics sent a strong message of peace and reconciliation that the whole region should now embrace.

Within hours of the departure of the Minsk Group diplomats from the region the Karabakh conflict claims another young life despite promises to respect the Olympic spirit.

Minsk Group diplomats try to find enough common ground to justify another meeting between the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the next weeks.

The diplomats mediating between Armenia and Azerbaijan realise that the gap between them and the Presidents is not simply the huge empty table between them.

Minsk Group co-Chair are in the region to meet Presidents. Governments and international organisations call on two countries to move peace process forward.

Edgar Khatchatryan addresses open letter to Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan and to international community, calling for an end to the killing on the front line.

Situation may negatively impact the peace process, including the implimentation of those issues that were agreed at the Vienna Summit in November, the Ministry said.

The first month of the year has been marred with daily incidents and the the death of several persons on both sides of the line of contact.

Barroso speaks of the "need for mutual understanding and strategic trust" and says work on a new agreement will start soon to change the relationship "from a partnership of need into a partnership of choice".

There may not be any poppy fields, and the numbers are in comparison miniscule, but the senseless deaths on the hills of Karabakh remind the world of the Great War