The Russian peacekeeping contingent remains in Karabakh and has no plans to leave the region. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Mikhail Galuzin.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili noted that she would veto the law “On meetings and manifestations,” which restricts freedom of assembly and expression.

Speaking in parliament, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan voiced three conditions, subject to which his country will sign a peace agreement with Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will not go to Spain, where his meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was supposed to take place on October 5 with the participation of the leaders of France and Germany.

Over the past two years, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has asked the government to approve 38 trips abroad. The chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream, Irakli Kobakhidze, spoke about this at a meeting in the Constitutional Court on the issue of impeachment of the president.

The Armenian Parliament ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The official reason is that the country is going to prosecute those who committed war crimes during the Azerbaijani-Armenian military conflict.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called Armenia’s decision to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court “extremely hostile” towards Russia. It assumes the arrest of Russian President Putin in the event of a visit to Armenia.

Baku and Yerevan are close to signing a peace treaty. This was stated by the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan. “We are very close and have a historic opportunity to sign a peace treaty. An eternal war is not beneficial to anyone,” he noted.

Armenia began the process of ratifying the Rome Statute in December last year, when it became obvious to everyone that the CSTO and the mechanisms of Armenian-Russian strategic cooperation were not sufficient to ensure its external security.

The chief of staff of the Prime Minister of Armenia, Arayik Harutyunyan, accused Russian state propaganda of unleashing a “hybrid war” against his country.