“The OSCE reminded Azerbaijan of its destructive policy through mentioning and rejecting Baku's ungrounded claims in the statement,” the expert said.

The spring visit of Polish Prime Minister Donald Dusk to Armenia gave renewed impetus to development of bilateral relations. In compliance with the agreement concluded on March 12, 2010, the first sitting of the Armenian-Polish intergovernmental committee resulted in signature of a protocol and memorandum on food safety. Besides, a business forum was held.

Football: FIFA published the national rankings, where Armenia is the 96th, going up 4 lines with 318 points. New world champions, Spain, top the rankings with 1883 points, followed by the Netherlands (1659 points) and Brazil (1536 points).

It is already becoming a tradition in Azerbaijan to make inadequate statements before every meeting between the foreign ministers or the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, with the Baku wise men believing they would make Armenia, the OSCE Minsk Group and the world community “return the Azerbaijani native lands”. By the way, these statements are issued while opening just another monument to Heydar Aliyev in some village or, at best, in a regional center in Azerbaijan.

Information security was in the focus of discussions over the past week. Armenian bloggers have created wiki.hayqpress.com internet resource as an alternative to largest internet encyclopedia – Wikipedia. The created resource provides unbiased and neutral information on Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.

On July 2, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan met with OSCE MG Co-chairs, Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the U.S. and Igor Popov of Russia as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, who arrived in Yerevan after visiting Artsakh Republic. The parties exchanged views on the situation at the line of contact between NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces. Minister Ohanyan hailed the mediators’ endeavors for achievement of a peaceful and acceptable settlement to the conflict.