Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has refused to support the initiative of the family of Ruben Vardanyan, the former head of the unrecognized Karabakh government, to appeal to former US President Donald Trump with a request for his release. This was reported by the Armenian newspaper "Hraparak".

Two Georgian judges have been added to the list of people against whom sanctions may be imposed, as proposed by Brussels, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas stated. According to her, the EU sees that court decisions against protesters are indeed "very, very disproportionate", and it is obvious that "the judiciary is also part of this apparatus".

The Armenian-Azerbaijani topic became the central one at the meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.

The EU seeks to further integrate Armenia into the European space economically and politically. This was discussed at a meeting in Brussels between European Council President Antonio Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Former financier of the founder of Georgia's ruling party Bidzina Ivanishvili, former head of the Co-Investment Fund, Giorgi Bachiashvili, said that he was brutally beaten in prison on July 11. This information was confirmed to the Georgian service of Radio Liberty by the prisoner's lawyer, David Jandieri.

The Georgian Dream party responded to the joint statement of 17 European ministers and EU High Representative Kaja Kallas, calling it an "organized attack on the Georgian people." According to the party, informal Deep State structures rule in the EU and Britain and allegedly interfere in Georgian politics. The Dream called on each signatory "to be more responsible in their statements in the future."

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has arrived in Azerbaijan on an official visit – this is his first trip to the country. The visit is taking place against the backdrop of intensified contacts between the countries on the issue of restoring the Syrian energy sector. During the reception of the foreign leader, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that he would supply gas to Syria.

The Press Council of Azerbaijan responded to the letter of the Union of Journalists of Russia, which expressed a protest in connection with the arrest in Baku of the heads of the Russian state media agency "Sputnik Azerbaijan" Igor Kartavych and Evgeny Belousov.

American Megga Osdoba Katz, known as an NGO development consultant and ex-OSCE representative, and in Georgia also as a yoga teacher, was not allowed to enter the country without explanation. On Facebook, she wrote that in the questionnaire, they simply marked the column "other" as the reason.

In a joint statement, 17 EU member states and the High Representative of the European Union strongly condemned "politically motivated arrests and detentions of leaders of opposition parties aimed at suppressing the political opposition in Georgia."