June 2 (APA) - Azerbaijan is planning to spend millions on the construction of a “brotherhood” mosque” to symbolize the friendships between Baku and Ankara, according to APA. Azerbaijani President Aliyev is said to have come up with the idea.

June 2 (APA) – Azerbaijan’s Permanent Mission to the UN organized a series of informal discussions on the topic of “The peaceful settlement of disputes, conflict prevention and resolution: mediation, judicial settlement and justice”.

In his speech, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov spoke about conflict settlement, with a focus on the Karabakh issue. Azimov described the conflict as one between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenia’s Permanent Rep to the UN opposed this formulation and accused Baku of hindering efforts at mediation to almost nothing.

Azimov countered by noting: “It is sufficient to note two of them. Firstly, Armenian citizens serve in Azerbaijan’s occupied territories and the documents of captivated Armenian soldiers confirm this fact. Secondly, President of the Republic of Armenian participates as a conflict party in the negotiations on conflict settlement.”

June 2 (News.az) – Azerbaijan’s presidency of the UN Security Council ended when Li Baodong, China’s Permanent Rep to the UN, took over. The Council presidency rotates among its members in alphabetical order of their names. Each president holds office for one calendar month.

June 2 (News.az) – Azerbaijani MP Rasim Musabayov says that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might try to arrange a meeting between the presidents of Armenian and Azerbaijan during her upcoming visit to the region.

Musabayov says that the US administration has basically left this task to the Russians, noting that President Obama is busy with other international issues and Clinton herself will be leaving her post in the near future.

The Azerbaijani MP cites the recent US State Department report on Karabakh as additional evidence that the Americans formally recognize “the fact of Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani territories.”

June 1 (Trend) – Azerbaijan and Georgia will be submitting a bid to UEFA to jointly host the Euro 2020 football competition.

The heads of the football federations of the two countries made the announcement at a press conference in Tbilisi. The idea is said to have been raised by Georgian President Saakashvili during a speech he made at the Azerbaijani parliament earlier this year.