- The lower house of Switzerland’s parliament passed a motion calling for the country to host a Nagorno-Karabakh peace forum.
- Prosecutors in Azerbaijan have referred a criminal case to the Baku Military Court against many of the former Nagorno-Karabakh officials and prisoners currently held in Baku.
- Armenia’s Foreign Ministry announced the resumption of diplomatic mission operations in Syria’s capital Damascus.
- Armenia’s parliamentary speaker, Alen Simonyan, met with his Indian counterpart Jagdeep Dhankhar during his visit to New Delhi, to discuss bilateral relations.
- A look into Georgia’s democratic backsliding.
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Whoever wants sustainable peace in Syria (and in the whole MENA region) must advocate for a change in the legislation in these countries that still allow different forms of violence (see the “Culture of Violence Scale” by peace researcher Franz Jedlicka). It is contradictory to claim that peace is a high goal and still allow child corporal punishment and the beating of women. Best regards, Karol