Head of "Ago" monitoring group, Italian ambassador to the Council of Europe (CE) Pietro Ercole Ago told journalists upon completion of his visit to Armenia.

In the course of the two-day visit the Troika will hold meetings with the Armenian political leadership.

According to the city office of public prosecutor, "the inscription are most likely the continuation of the conflict between youth groups taken place June 16 - natives and Armenians."

Azeri deputy foreign minister Araz Azimov noted that if the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs had visited the region, the facts of breaking the cease-fire regime between Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh would have become subject of consideration by the OSCE diplomats.

The Azeri party again undertook an attempt to bring its posts closer to the front line of the Karabakh army.

Finnish diplomat Heikki Talvitie, who was co-chair of the OSCE Minsk conference on the Nagorno Karabakh issue in 1995-1996, is appointed special representative of the European Union in the South Caucasus.

As Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanian stated at the opening ceremony, the event will convey a new impulse to the process of integration of Armenia into Europe.

In the course of the meeting with secretary general of the Collective Security Council Nikolay Bordyuzha the Iranian ambassador to Russia was interested in issues "concerning the Treaty on Collective Security, as well as the situation in Afghanistan and Central Asia."

Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanian expressed hope to come to concrete agreements in the course of the coming second meeting with the Turkish foreign minister in September.

The Constitutional Court of Armenia completed consideration of the suit of "Justice" opposition bloc appealing against the returns of the parliamentary election held on the proportional voter May 25.