Major events of the past week were the visit of the NKR parliamentary delegation to Armenia, the arrival of Turkish journalists and the inner-party conflicts in the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party of Armenia. As usual several sharp statements were made by ARF Dashnaktsutyun. A number of political scientists assessed the current state of Armenian-Turkish relations. There was also the anticipated reaction from the Republican Party of Armenia in relation to its party members - the RA National Assembly MPs, who had spoken in support of Sasun Mikaelyan.

The crisis taught lessons to Armenia and highlighted its main shortcomings: weak diversification and lack of competitiveness, therefore, to overcome the effects of the crisis the country should provide three essential conditions, head of World Bank Armenian Office Aristomene Varoudakis said. According to him, in order to increase competitiveness of Armenian economy the country need to creating more favorable environment for investors, reduce the role of oligopolies, minimize, or even eliminate corruption in tax authorities, develop infrastructures, particularly in transport and IT spheres," he said.