The summer session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) will be held in early July in Monaco, vice-speaker of the Parliament and head of the Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE PA Bahar Muradova told reporters on Friday. A report on the fulfilment of the Belgrade Declaration and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) resolutions will be heard at the session. The Monaco Declaration is also expected to be adopted.

20 years have passed since the occupation of Lachin Region of Azerbaijan by the Armenian armed forces. According to APA, the Armenian army seized Lachin region on May 18, 1992 and de-facto united Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia. The town of Lachin, one settlement and 120 villages of the region were occupied by the enemy. 264 Azerbaijani soldiers and civilians became martyrs and 63 were taken hostage during the occupation.

The European Union prepared a package of proposals for confidence-building between the sides of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan Roland Kobia said in his press conference in Baku today. “The European Union has some ideas to contribute to confidence-building between the sides of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, but the sides have not accepted the proposals yet. I hope they will accept these proposals in the near future and show their real commitment to solve the problem”.

“If EU official travels to Nagorno Karabakh, it doesn’t mean that EU recognizes it as an independent territory”, Head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan Roland Kobia said in the press conference today, APA reports. Kobia reminded that the final document of the EU foreign ministers’ meeting in February was an indicator of serious attention by the European Union to the South Caucasus and this conflict. Foreign ministers of 27 EU countries demanded to provide access for EU Special Representative on the South Caucasus Philippe Lefort to Nagorno Karabakh.

The United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs offered to increase humanitarian assistance to the separatist regime in Nagorno Karabakh, from USD 2 mln to USD 5 mln. The Armenian National Committee of America said that the subcommittee rejected Obama administration’s proposal to cut assistance to Armenia by USD 7,5 million.

The representative of the German Green Party, member of the German Bundestag (parliament), Volker Beck sees only a peaceful way to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He thinks that it is necessary to observe the rights of national minorities to self -determination. It is characteristic that he has not mentioned a word about the main principle of international law that is preserving the country's territorial integrity. Beck has expressed his opinion at an event dedicated to democracy in Baku.

Under the mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, monitoring of the contact line between the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops was conducted near Kuropatkino village of Azerbaijan’s Khojavand region on May 16. Press service of the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan told APA that monitoring ended without incident.

Monitoring will be held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces near the Kuropatkino village in the Azerbaijani Khojavend region on May 16, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Trend on Tuesday. The monitoring will be held on the Azerbaijani side by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk, his office coordinator Peter Keay, field assistant Antal Herdich and OSCE High-Level Planning Group representative, Colonel Andrei Barashkin.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) calls for enabling the Azerbaijani refugees and expelled population to return to their homes in safety, honour and dignity. It was mentioned in a certain paragraph of the Ashgabat resolution adopted at the organization's International Conference on the topic "Refugees in Muslim World" held in Turkmenistan's capital on May 11-12, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

“Russia always supports the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Our standpoint is that the mediation mission of Russia will be continued together with the other co-chair countries,” Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov answered the questions of journalist about the policy of newly-elected president Vladimir Putin on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.