ArmInfo. Unfortunately,  without normalization of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, normalization  of the Armenian-Turkish relations is impossible for today.  Turkish  journalist Serdar Korucu told journalists on October 31 answering the  question of ArmInfo about whether the normalization of the  Armenian-Turkish relations is possible without stipulating this  process with the Karabakh settlement.

ArmInfo. For Armenia, Baku's attempts  to attach a religious character to the Karabakh conflict are unacceptable, Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov  stated during a welcoming speech at the opening of the forum Regional Peace: Reality and Opportunities on October 31.

ArmInfo. Yerevan  once again advised President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stay away from  the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.

ArmInfo. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Azerbaijan on October 30-31 to participate in the opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway and in the sixth meeting of the Azerbaijan-Turkey high-level strategic cooperation council. The press office of the President of Turkey reported this.

ArmInfo. Hero of Artsakh, Major General Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (with nickname Commando) in an interview to ArmInfo discusses the internal threats and problems of Azerbaijan in the context of artificial maintenance of tension on the borders with Artsakh and Armenia. The combat  general shares his vision of the steps taken by the army command in the direction of strengthening the Armenian defensive positions on the border, comments on and justifies the logic of the latest purchases of arms of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan and Armenia, talks about his vision of army construction in Armenia .    

ArmInfo. According to the calculations of the United Nations (UN), while maintaining the current demographic and migration trends, the population of Armenia  will continue to decline, reaching 2.5 million by 2035. Today, according to official data, the population of the republic is just under 3 million people. This was stated by the representative of the Armenian office of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Garik Hayrapetyan at a press conference on October 17 during the presentation of the UN  report "Population of the World in 2017".

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ArmInfo. "Speaking about the meetings between the presidents, it is first of all necessary to take into account the political situation in which these meetings take  place." At the moment, the political situation in Armenia is extremely favorable, "political expert Alexander Manasyan stated at a press conference on October 16.

ArmInfo. No other NATO country fights so much with Russia as Turkey does, says senior researcher at Atlantic Council Center, former OSCE Minsk Group co-chair Matthew Bryza.

The international expert, ex-chairman of the parliamentary commission on external relations Hovhannes Igityan in an interview with ArmInfo discusses the latest initiatives and processes in the negotiation process around Artsakh. It presents real preferences for Armenia's access to the European market,  shares his opinion on the causes of centrifugal sentiments in Iraq and Spain.

ArmInfo. The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today announced the following briefing:

ArmInfo.The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has teamed up with the national teams of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which will not be included in the same grouping for the fourth division of the League of Nations.

ArmInfo. Peaceful and democratic Turkey is the only possible way of its peaceful  coexistence with other countries of the region. A similar opinion was  voiced by ArmInfo deputy of the faction of the pro-Kurdish People's  Democratic Party in the Turkish parliament Karo Paylan.

ArmInfo. Following the qualifying matches of the group stage of the World Cup in 2018 in the European zone, in the League of Nations of UEFA the Armenian team  will play in the fourth division D together with the teams taking places from 40th to 50th. These are Azerbaijan, Macedonia, Georgia, Belarus, the Faroe Islands, Latvia, Luxembourg, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Liechtenstein, Malta, Kosovo, Andorra, San Marino and Gibraltar.

ArmInfo. The statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavel Klimkin, on the Karabakh issue contradicts the position of the OSCE Minsk Group and other international structures, and it is unacceptable. Deputy Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov said this in a conversation with ArmInfo correspondent, commenting on the statement of the Ukrainian Foreign Minister that "Kiev will support the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan in the future, since aggression and occupation were committed against Azerbaijan".

ArmInfo.Armenian Parliament started to discuss agreement on creating United Group of Armenian-Russian troops.

ArmInfo.Turkish Foreign Ministry urged citizens to refrain from trips to Nagorno-Karabakh.

ArmInfo. Due to the disqualification of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), Armenian weightlifters will not be able to participate in the World Championship scheduled for the end of November in the American Anaheim. 

ArmInfo. The visit of Turkish citizens to Nagorno-Karabakh does not reflect Ankara's policy. Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said.

ArmInfo. Turkey will not handover to Azerbaijan 4 representatives of the intelligentsia who visited Artsakh. Aragats Akhoyan, co-chairman of the National Congress of Western Armenians expressed similar confidence in the conversation with the correspondent of ArmInfo, on the initiative of which the representatives of the Turkish intelligentsia visited Armenia and Artsakh, commenting on the statement of Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Erkan Ozoral that within the framework of the legal process against 4 Turkish citizens who visited Artsakh, Ankara will fulfill its obligations at the request of Azerbaijan.