30 June: The President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan will visit Ukraine tomorrow(agencies)

30 June: An Azerbaijani soldier is wounded in an exchange of fire on the Armenia-Azerbaijan line of contact in the region of Shahbouz (APA/News.az)

Baku hopes for early cancellation of discriminative Jackson-Vanick amendment

29 June: Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov says that at the recent Kazan summit Armenia made proposals that "were contradictory to the concept of Karabakh peace" (ANS press/news.az)

29 June: Bloomberg photojournalist Diana Markosyan is refused entry into Azerbaijan "because of Armenian" surname". She claims she has never been to Armenia in her life (news.am)

29 June: Spokesperson for Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili dismisses suggestions that georgia might recognise Abkhazia as "unserious" (agencies)

28 June: French Foreign Ministry says OSCE Minsk Group co-Chair will visit the region again shortly (agencies)

28 June: US State Department Spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, says that the results of the Kazan summit were dissapointing (www.state.gov)

27 June: OSCE Chairman Audronius Azubalis calls for strenghtening the cease regime in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflcit zone and for further confidence buidling measures with the involvement of civil society (www.osce.org)

27 June: The Russian President Dimitri Medvedev was hugely dissapointed by the results of the Kazan summit (Kommersant)