The world community applies double standards to the Karabakh issue, President of Armenia Serhz Sargsyan said in an interview with the Italian Quotidiano Nazionale.

Armenian authorities should give a proper, weighted and adequate response to Azerbaijan's actions, Karen Bekaryan, Head of the European Integration public organization, told media in Yerevan, Thursday. He said that Armenia can make a tough open statement or toughen its diplomatic stance or combine the both approaches.

The Legislative Council, which is the Upper House of the New South Wales Parliament, Australia, adopted a resolution recognizing the independence of Nagorno Karabakh, Thursday, on October 25, the Armenian National Committee of Australia reports.

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Armenia and Azerbaijan will have first formal contacts after a break of several months. Diplomats from the OSCE Minsk Group co-Chair countries will facilitate the meeting.

On October 24, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, who is in Mexico on an official visit, met with Francisco Arroyo Vieyra, the Deputy Chairman of the Lower Chamber of the Mexico's Senate, Armenian Foreign Ministry reports.

c, as diplomats from the Minsk Group struggle to organise a meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers.

EU-funded programme to facilitate dialogue between civil society, media and policy makers.

State Department sources confirmed Thursday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton relayed the U.S. Government's "strong disappointment" over Hungary's extradition of convicted Azerbaijani axe-murderer Ramil Safarov during a state visit by Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi to Washington this week, asbarez.com reports.

Resumption of military actions in the Karabakh conflict zone is possible only if U.S. unleashes large-scale Iranian war, Vladimir Zakharov, Director of the Institute of Political Studies of the Black Sea and Caspian Region, told ArmInfo.