Russian and U.S. presidents Dmitriy Medvedev and Barack Obama signed a preliminary agreement on Monday to cut their countries’ nuclear arsenals to 1,500-1,675 operational warheads within seven years after a new arms reduction treaty comes into force, APA reports quoting RIA-Novosty. The framework deal agreed during Kremlin talks between Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama during the U.S. leader’s first visit to Russia sets guidelines for a new treaty to replace the START 1 pact, due to expire in December.

“Azerbaijan uses the experience of military doctrines of world countries at present, but Azerbaijan’s own military doctrine will be discussed in the autumn session of Milli Mejlis”, member of the Parliament’s Security and Defense Committee Aydin Mirzazadeh told journalists, APA reports. He said the number of issues was described in the Azerbaijan’s National Security Concept approved by the head of state.

U.S. President Barack Obama urged that Russia respect Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity during talks with President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow on Monday, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.

Turkish Foreign Ministry issues a statement on the intergovernmental agreement on the Nabucco project, APA quotes the ministry’s official website. The intergovernmental agreement on the Nabucco natural gas pipeline project, which has great energy security importance for both Turkey and Europe, will be signed on July 13, 2009 in Ankara, said the statement.

On July 6, on the New York Mercantile Exchange August crude WTI futures was down $2.68, at $64.05 per barrel, APA-ECONOMICS reports. August Brent contract on London’s ICE futures exchange was down $1.56 at $64.05 per barrel on July 6.

“Existence of the conflicts in the South Caucasus is a big obstacle and threat to our common development”, said President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev during the ceremony of opening of the newly reconstructed Tezepir Mosque complex, APA reports.

Units of Armenian armed forces fired on the opposite positions of Azerbaijani Army from the posts in uplands of Azerbaijan’s Goranboy Region at 22.35-22.55 on July 6, from the posts near Garakhanbeyli Village of Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli Region at 00.45-00.50 on July 7 with machine and submachine guns.