The Baku Court on Grave Crimes sentenced the blogger Alexander Lapshin to three years of imprisonment on charges of his illegal visits to the Armenia-occupied Azerbaijani lands and a criminal conspiracy with the Armenians living there.

The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs are preparing a meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers in New York, Russia’s permanent representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich said on July 19.

The trial on blogger Alexander Lapshin, detained in Azerbaijan, continued in the Baku Grave Crimes Court on July 19.

The OSCE monitoring held along the line of contact between the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops passed without incidents on July 19, said the press service of Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry in a message.

Discussion of a specific plan for settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its implementation should be ensured at a possible meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told RIA Novosti on July 17.

The Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict may “flare up with renewed vigor”, as it is the result of geopolitical games, Novruz Mammadov, assistant to Azerbaijan’s president for foreign policy issues, told RIA Novosti agency on July 17.

Holding “presidential elections” in the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia is another political provocation, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman Hikmat Hajiyev told Trend on July 17.

Deputy Foreign Minister of Norway Tone Skogen has called on the OSCE Chairman to protect the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.

The trial on blogger Alexander Lapshin, detained in Azerbaijan, was continued July 14 at the Baku Court on Grave Crimes.

As many as 20,000 Iranians have signed a document condemning the murder of the 2-year-old Azerbaijani girl Zahra and her grandmother by Armenian armed forces as a result of the recent provocation on the frontline.

The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is not connected with the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and must be resolved in line with international law through negotiations, said Timur Urazaev, Kazakhstan’s extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to Armenia, in his interview with Sputnik Armenia.

Azerbaijan’s Jojug Marjanli village is living through a successful period of history. The families, which resided here more than two decades ago, now are returning to their native village. The people have smiles on faces because now they can eventually reunion with their native land.

A group of Azerbaijani parliamentarians headed by the Vice Speaker Bahar Muradova have visited Salminaz Guliyeva, who was injured by the Armenian armed forces on July 4.

Talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement are not bearing fruit while tensions are growing in the zone of military operations, Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The world community regards Nagorno-Karabakh as an integral part of the Republic of Azerbaijan by international law, said German MP Stephan Mayer in his response to an enquiry by the Berlin office of The European Azerbaijan Society regarding the killing of Azerbaijani civilians by Armenian militaries.

Grant Thornton Azerbaijan announced that it stands with the Azerbaijani government against any unlawful activity in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The murder of Azerbaijani civilians by Armenian militaries is terrorism and separatism, says Yuri Raikhel, the Ukrainian analyst.

Vice Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Bahar Muradova and a group of MPs today visited the Alkhanly village of Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli region, APA reported on July 13.

The trial on blogger Alexander Lapshin, detained in Azerbaijan, continued in the Baku Grave Crimes Court on July 12.

Murder of little Zahra and her grandmother demonstrates Armenian fascism and Armenia received a response for this military crime, said Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.

Brussels hosted a meeting of Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian amid the high-tension over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The work of the OSCE Minsk Group was criticized at the session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Minsk, said Azay Guliyev, Vice-President of the OSCE PA and member of Azerbaijani delegation to the organization.

A week has passed since the murder of two Azerbaijani civilians – a woman and her granddaughter – by Armenian militaries and the aggressor country has not been duly punished yet.

Member of the Argentine Senate Maria Ester Labado condemned the Armenian provocation against Azerbaijan, as a result of which Azerbaijani civilians were killed.

Kristian Vigenin, a special representative of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on the South Caucasus, will visit the South-Caucasus region in September, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the OSCE PA, Vice Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Bahar Muradova said at a press conference on July 11.