Rice tries to persuade Iraqi leaders to press for political reconciliation.

The monitoring process was suspended through the fault of the Azeri side.

Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh have already presented the list of monuments to be monitored. The matter depends on Azerbaijan's good will, Vartan Oskanian said.

The OSCE Minsk Group calls on Yerevan and Baku to approve common concept of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement as a basis for a comprehensive peaceful agreement.

Vartan Oskanian: no declaration was adopted upon the outcomes of the Madrid summit, since a number of issues were not coordinated.

The invitations were sent by Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosian.

IAGS: while activist and scholarly efforts have resulted in widespread recognition of the Armenian Genocide, there has been "little recognition of similar genocides against other Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire."

"It's not correct to describe killings of Armenians during World War I as Genocide," said Turkey's Consul General in Los Angeles.

Azad Rahimov: trust-building measures are taken to reconcile the Azerbaijani and Armenian publics in the framework of people's diplomacy.