By living standards Armenia ranks 83 among 170 U.N. member states, head of the OSCE Yerevan Office, Ambassador Vladimir Pryakhin stated at the international scientific conference titled "Caucasus without conflicts and terror. Dialogue of civilizations on the Caucasian crossroad" held in Yerevan today. The index is rather low, however it's higher than that of Georgia (100) and Azerbaijan (101), he noted. According to the diplomat the low index is conditioned by the transit period, economic problems and unsettled conflicts. "Three out of five frozen conflicts in the post soviet space are in the South Caucasus," Mr. Pryakhin underscored.