The interlocutors discussed a range of issues related to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and assessed the current situation around it. Foreign Minister of Armenia highly appreciated the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and the Personal

Foreign Minister of Armenia and of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs exchanged views on the forthcoming meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as the upcoming steps in the Co-Chairs' calendar.

The national interests of Armenia – freedom, security, protection of national sovereignty - are in the center of our foreign policy.

Dear compatriots, We congratulate all of us on Independence Day.  On this day 28 years ago, the Armenian people, standing up for the national democratic movement, declared its independent statehood.

On September 20 Foreign Minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan met Foreign Minister of Artsakh Masis Mayilyan.

On September 20, Foreign Minister Mnatsakanyan received the delegation headed by Elias Bou Saab, Minister of National Defense of the Lebanese Republic.

On September 20, on the initiative of the Armenian National Committee of Australia Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan met Tim Wilson, member of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.

On September 19, Foreign Minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan received the delegation led by Katarína Mathernová, Deputy Director-General for European Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission.

The counterparts commended existing cooperation between Armenia and Lithuania and reiterated their determination to continue the joint effort to further enrich the bilateral agenda.

For further deepening reforms we have discussed that as well and of course some interesting experience of both sides that we would certainly want to share and to hear each other.