On 7 March the Government of Armenia adopted a decision to open an Embassy in Vatican in line with a relevant decree of the Armenian President, and to appoint the president’s son-in-law, Mikael Minasyan, Armenia’s ambassador to Vatican.

The number of casualties on the front line has increased sharply in the last months as efforts to restart the peace negotiations between the two sides remained stalled.

News.Az reprints from 1news.az interview with Dennis Sammut ,executive director of British organization LINKS.

International Women's Day is marked in the Caucasus with small symbolic acts of respect at home and in the workplace, but the plight of women remains difficult.

Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced as a result of conflicts in the Caucasus in the last twenty five years. Their plight is largely forgotten.

Officials and experts discuss problems in EU-Azerbaijan relations and the way forward at an unusually frank and open discussion in Brussels.

The press service of the Organization reports that the Co-Chairs repeated their concerns regarding the issue of civilian flights to Nagorno-Karabakh and the recent violence on the Line of Contact.

'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.