Another stock meeting between the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan ended like the previous five. That is it came to nothing. It can be assumed that each of the presidents got his share of reproach from Dmitry Medvedev: Ilham Aliyev for his constant, but empty threats, Serzh Sargsyan for his intractability. And so they parted, coming to an agreement “to continue negotiations based on the Madrid Principles”.

“We will not call early elections just because an article or two is canceled. Early elections are not on our agenda,” AK Party parliamentary group deputy chairman Bekir Bozdag said.

The final decision on formation of a Customs Union will be taken during a meeting of the EurAsEC intergovernmental council on July 15.

Etyen Mahcupyan moves into a new role as publishing consultant.

The Armenian government has discussed usage of Armenian Unicode fonts for state structures’ records. “Armenian state structures are using various encodings in their work. Moreover, their websites are often unreadable because of the encoding used,” Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said. He also instructed all Ministers to open e-mails at gov.am domain. According to head of the government administration David Sargsyan, the problem may be resolved in a couple of weeks.

Secretary of the Armenian National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan met with Eurasia academy president Oleg Poptsov, rector of Moscow Institute of TV and Radio Vasily Karelsky, political observer Leonid Ioffe and rector of the Armenian Academy of TV and Radio hamlet Ghushyan to discuss information security and digitalization issues. “Armenian-Russian cultural ties need to be expanded,” the NSC Secretary said.