The US leader said "America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal." He also added that "a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible, and far better, and if Iran changes course and meets its obligations, it can rejoin the community of nations."

Turkey vowed to take reprisals against France after the French Senate approved a bill making it a crime to deny that the massacre of Armenians in 1915 was genocide

The Sochi statement is evidence of the fact that the affairs of the negotiating process are more serious than the expert associations use to say

Ankara's influence at the decisions of Baku is one of the key motives of the decision of Paris

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There has been an emotional but mixed reaction to the decision of the French Senate making it an offence to deny that genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during WW I.

Rossiiskaya Gazeta

The Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia issue statement after their meeting in Sochi. Keeping the two leaders talking has been the immediate objective of the Russian President, and in that regard he has succeeded.

A meeting with the three presidents is expected to follow.

A trilateral meeting with the President of Azerbaijan will take place later in the day.