The whole week in Armenia passed under the impressions of the meeting between Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Athens, the discussions on the prospects of the Karabakh conflict settlement and ratification of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols. The political forces of Armenia also expressed their views, often critical, on the results of the 12th congress of the Republican Party.

It has already become a tradition: every year the process of Karabakh conflict settlement is completed in the same way - at the annual summit, the OSCE Ministerial Council issues a statement which almost repeats the previous one with the mandatory confirmation of the necessity to continue the process of finding a peaceful solution based on Madrid principles. However, this year the usual course of negotiations was somehow disturbed by the signing of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols.