The Subcommittee also encouraged Turkey to lift its blockade of Armenia and reconsider opportunity of establishing a rail link between Kars, Turkey and Gyumri, Armenia.

Robert Kocharian stated that at the meeting with Luxemburg foreign minister, chairman of the committee of ministers of the Council of Europe Lydie Polfer.

During the meeting followed with the document signing, RA foreign minister Vardan Oskanian and Italian deputy foreign minister Margerita Boniveri discussed the issues of expansion of economic and cultural cooperation as well as opportunities of optimization of the bilateral contractual and legal spheres.

Speaking about the bilateral relations, Bonivery emphasized the warm attitude of Italy to Armenia and readiness of her state to be useful for Armenia.

CE Secretary General Walter Schwimmer has stated that commenting on the statements of the official Baku regarding the negative and biased attitude of Gross to Azerbaijan.

Representatives of the Georgian Gregorian church, the administration board of Muslims in Caucasus, the Armenian apostolic Church, the Jewish community of Caucasus, the Catholic church of Caucasus as well as the representatives of international organizations are taking part in the forum.

The head of the department on human rights of the Supreme commissariat of Bosnia and Herzegovina Christopher Garland noted Turkey could be called to account as a sate that committed genocide exactly in that way.

PACE summer session is over. The deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly at last appointed the rapporteur on Karabakh. Leader of the PACE Socialist faction, British delegation head Tarry Davis took the office. The appointment of the rapporteur was held without excesses, in contrast to the hearings of the report on the situation with refugees and the consequences of the speech of the rapporteur on Azerbaijan. Being not satisfied with the content of the report and the speech, official Baku envoys stirred up an unprecedented scandal. It came to the Azeri delegation complaining to PACE President Peter Schieder about the rapporteur on Azerbaijan, member of temporary commission on the question of political prisoners in Azerbaijan Swiss deputy Andreas Gross, which was accused of Azerbaijanophobia. The situation was unprecedented. For the first time in the history of the Council of Europe not the rapporteur brought accusations against the country, which had not met its obligations, just the opposite – the country, which had failed to carry out its commitments, accused the rapporteur.