On the eve of the planned meeting of June 26 due in Paris Heads of the Armenian and Azerbaijani MFAs managed to exchange stinging statements, which in reality gives the impression of a desire to make the forthcoming negotiations look more significant. On the eve Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov once again declared in Istanbul about the "unconstructive policy" Armenia has set in regulating the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Basic political events of the dying week in Armenia were the work of the Council of Elders in Yerevan, sluggish protests of the opposition, break-up of the fact-gathering group of March 1 events, review of the tax bill in the RA Parliament, and suspension of funding provided to Armenia by the program "Millennium Challenges".