A helicopter of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) which had been sent to Platform R1 to transport a worker suffering from heart attack crashed into Persian Gulf waters shortly after its take off from the platform, IRNA reports.

Opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan, who heads the protest actions against the ex-President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, announced the creation of a "velvet revolution" committee, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.

The Russian Railways JSC is discussing creation of a logistics operator of the International North-South Transport Corridor with Iran, India and Azerbaijan, Alexander Misharin, first deputy chief executive officer of Russian Railways, told reporters on the sidelines of the "TransRussia" international exhibition for transport and logistics services and technologies, Russian media reported.

Moscow calls on Western countries to stop meddling with the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in Syria (OPCW), Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday, commenting on the French Foreign Ministry’s allegations that Russia and Syria are impeding the work of the OPCW mission, TASS reports.

As a result of the accident, a serviceman died in the territory of the Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenia.

Serzh Sargsyan is not Armenian citizens' Prime Minister, MP Nikol Pashinyan said during the rally at Republic Square, news.am reports.

The U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials driving NAFTA renegotiations will meet in Washington on Thursday, a Canadian government source said on Tuesday, but no announcement is expected from the talks, Reuters reports.

Baku is hosting the OCC E&F Database Training Course (DTC) 2018 organized by SHAPE MPD.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has sent a congratulatory letter to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, APA reports.

A rally kicked off at Republic Square, the central square of Armenia’s capital city Yerevan, news.am reports.