In a recent G8 meeting in Italy the presidents of USA, France and Russia called for a settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and yesterday the White House released the basic principles according to which the conflict may be settled if the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan agree in an upcoming meeting on July 17 in Moscow.

The Armenian government and the department of Diaspora affairs are working on a plan that calls back Armenian spread around the world to return to homeland and establish themselves in Armenia. The programs are called Ari Tun / Come Home and Armenian Youth of the Diaspora Visit Armenia.

The Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan in a meeting with tourism industry leaders has presented a package of “Cheap vacation packages and deals to Nagorno Karabakh” to encourage internal tourism and help to cushion the economic downturn. The meeting was held with more than 20 representatives of tour providers aiming to enhance the tourist visits to Nagorno Karabakh Republic, promoting development of travel industry in the region.

The time has come for the people and the leadership of Azerbaijan to have a serious reality check in regard to solving the self-determination issue of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and the conflict with Armenia. As the Minsk group mediators are in the capital Yerevan and heading for Baku preparing the upcoming Moscow meeting between the two presidents it may help to review the two principles that both sides hold as arguments for conflict resolution: people's self-determination and territorial integrity.

Armenia’s national air carrier, Armavia Air Company, will commence a new direct flight between Yerevan and Rome beginning July 15, 2009.

A group of nine prominent European journalists undertaking a 5-day trip to Armenia recently, as part of a UNWTO-supported familiarization trip, gave the country a big thumbs up.

Armenia, which recently has made headlines as an adventure travel destination because of numerous mountains and cheap prices yesterday started it's first international rock climbing festival called Arev.

A top journalist from Russia says former Soviet Union and Gorbachev bear responsibility for resolving the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, which has been frozen already 15 year between the self-determination rights of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan's desire to control the region.

Tourists who travel to Armenia as an ancient, beautiful and cheap family vacation destination in South Eastern European corner,also take the opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful mountainous regions of the world, the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. Today, the president of Nagorno Karabakh Mr. Bako Sahakyan met with the government to discuss way to develop tourism and recreation industry in the republic and attrack more tourists from Europe, USA and the Middle East.

The basic goal of the security safeguarding of Armenia has been considered as a primary link for the foreign policy of the state the other priorities of which have proceeded and will in the future from it. The traced course of our current security and foreign policy with its urgency of implication and complementation appears through implementation of multi-polar security policy in our days.

"Today’s Azerbaijan is a true caricature," says Lala Guliyeva, head of the Liberal Party of Azerbaijan about the current political situation of the state in a interview to the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

After the “home analyses” followed St. Petersburg meeting between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev has probably understood that the only logic point for resuming the negotiation process over the conflict within “Madrid principles” is the grant of such a status to Nagorno Karabakh that would be accepted both internationally and by Baku first of all and exclude its legal belonging to Azerbaijan.