'Nagorno-Karabakh is the most heated conflict in the region.'

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov held a meeting with the OSCE MG co-chairs in Paris on 2 March.

Meeting of senior diplomats shows that this channel of communication between the two countries is for the moment working well. However soonl it will need to be complimented by a more high profile and more political channel if it is to be sustained.

The EU commissioner for European good neighborhood policy Stephan Fule expects achievements in the negotiations on the associative agreement with Azerbaijan at the Eastern Partnership summit in Lithuania last autumn.

RIA Novosti takes off offending article and Baku embassy says "it is not necessary in this context to call into question the unchanged position of Moscow regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict". But is there more behind this story?

Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Mahmud Mammed-Guliev expressed concern and protest of Azerbaijan at article carried by Russian State News Agency RIA Novosti.

Russian FM comments on Georgia.

The Armenian CEC has officiallly declared Serzh Sargsyan as winner in last week's Presidential elections. Runner up Raffi Hovhanessian has refused to accept the result.

Saeed Jalili expressed satisfaction with his first visit to Azerbaijan, which he said had always been a friendly country for him.

The Islamic call to prayer echoes from Jumshud Mosque in the village of Chemenli in Agdam Region, 3 kilometers from the line of contact separating Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.