Ilham Aliyev receives credentials of ambassadors of the Netherlands, Greece, Italy and Belgium

The OSCE Minsk Group and related institutions should be abolished, stated Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a briefing on Friday.

"We are not against unimpeded communication, but this does not mean unimpeded bypassing of Armenia’s jurisdiction," said Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a press conference on Friday. He confirmed that two points of the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan remain unresolved. However, he added, Yerevan has proposed solutions for both issues.

Activist Jlala Dzhavadov has been detained. The young man stopped responding to calls on Thursday from 4 p.m.

In a pointed discussion on the legacy of French diplomacy in the South Caucasus, an international conference convened in Baku on Friday to assess France’s role in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The event, organized by the Center for the Analysis of International Relations, highlighted long-standing grievances over what many in Azerbaijan see as Paris’s historical bias in favor of Armenia.