“Steinmeier welcomed the recent improvements in the upholding of the ceasefire. There was agreement among the participants of the Berlin meeting that a sustainable ceasefire and a return to political negotiations remain indispensable. Today’s talks also served the goal of co-ordinating possible further steps towards achieving a settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, also with a view to Steinmeier’s upcoming visit to the region,” the statement read.

The tariff of electricity will decrease by 2.58 AMD for Armenian consumers starting from August 1. The draft on decreasing the electricity tariff was discussed and approved during the Public Services Regulatory Commission’s session on June 24.

“Resolution on expansion of observation mission may be considered a progress for the Armenian side. The statement adopted in St. Petersburg as a result of negotiations allows to officially consider “aggressor” the side, which will violate the ceasefire after the summit. Another important result in NK conflict settlement process was maintenance of Russia’s role as a chief player. “

“From formal standpoint this corresponds to the reality, as the meeting launched in Russia’s northern capital, in fact, confirmed resolutions of Vienna summit, which, according to Nalbandian, “Will provide corresponding conditions on resumption of negotiations of issue settlement.” Thus, agreements reached in Vienna and St. Petersburg, which seemingly should be enshrined upon a special agreement, bears technical, temporary nature, which will allow making a shift to more concrete negotiations of settlement.

On the whole, 21 issues have been included in the agenda. The issue of amendments to the Electoral Code will be debated as well. Need for amendments to the Electoral Code emerged after the authorities and the opposition agreed on a range of key issues and signed a statement on consensus.

“There is a concrete statement. It was promulgated and it is an official document. Everyone should be guided by it instead of making arbitrary or distorted interpretations,” Zakharova said.

Results of representative survey conducted within “Civic Engagement in Local Governance (CELoG)” Program funded by USAID served as a ground for this brief report[1]. Survey has been conducted by the Caucasus Research Resource Center—Armenia (CRRC) in July 2015 in randomly selected 1443 households (HH) through the territory of Armenia[2].

The details of the investigative mechanism, such as the specific tasks investigators will assume and under what circumstances they will be deployed to the Line of Contact and Armenia-Azerbaijan border, are under discussion by the sides. The OSCE will be the organization in charge of implementing the mechanism, and the Co-Chairs, in their capacity as OSCE mediators, will continue to work with the sides on refining the proposal.

“I’m sure that Novruz Mammadov is lying, and Edward Nalbandian is right for the reason that I like Nalbandian, and I must say that I exclusively don’t like, when he says the truth. That expression, lie by Novruz Mammadov pursues the purpose to conceal Baku’s diplomatic failure from the Azerbaijani community. That’s all. Other processes will continue in France.”

“Right after the 1915 Turkey initiated cultural Genocide, which continues until now. Genocide against the Armenian culture in Turkey pursues the purpose to abolish cultural heritage of Armenians as well. Just a few months ago Turkish press warned that dilapidated Armenian protestant church in historical Kharberd city under Turkey’s current territory is being used by the Turks as barns and for parking, instead of rehabilitating it they’re going to build a hotel on its place.”