Armenia’s permanent representative to the UN, Armen Martirosian, said those countries which are well aware of the South Caucasian region and the true cause behind the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict find that an incautious politicization of this conflict may jeopardize the entire peace process.

Election officials in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh say the former head of the region's security service has been elected president.

The presidential election in Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-proclaimed republic in Azerbaijan, can be considered valid now that 25% of those eligible to vote have done so, the region's central election commission said Thursday.

There are five candidates officially running for president of Nagorno-Karabakh. Most observers say only one has any real chance of winning.

On July 19, voters in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh will elect a successor to Arkady Ghukasian, the former foreign minister who has served two successive presidential terms since 1997, when his predecessor Robert Kocharian was named Armenian prime minister.

Azerbaijan's deputy foreign minister has said it is up to Russia and the United States to decide whether a radar base in Azerbaijan could be used in the U.S. missile-defense shield.

Energy-rich Azerbaijan has started delivering natural gas from its Shah Deniz field in the Caspian Sea to Turkey, the press service of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) said Tuesday.

Armenia must voluntarily cede Azerbaijani territory if it wants to avoid a new war over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani president said Monday.

An official delegation led by the Azerbaijani and Armenian ambassadors to Russia has toured each country's capital for the first time in 13 years, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reported.

After months of deliberations European football officials on Saturday decided not to risk incident, and canceled Euro-2008 qualifiers between Armenia and Azerbaijan citing security concerns.

UEFA decides to cancel Armenia vs Azerbaijan matches and give both sides zero points. While Armenia wanted to play according to UEFA rules and was ready to host a match in Armenia and travel to Baku for the exchange game, Azerbaijan refused to host Armenia and travel to Yerevan, thus going against the established UEFA rules.

Leaders from Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Azerbaijan have signed a final joint declaration at the summit of the GUAM Organization For Democracy And Economic Development in Baku. The declaration states that all sides will work to strengthen cooperation on security and stability in the region.