On July 6, the Diplomatic School of Armenia held the written round of the entrance exams for 2016-2017 "Diplomacy and International Relations" annual program. Starting from the day that the Diplomatic School was established in 2009, this is to be its 7^th intake of future diplomats. The applicants wrote an essay on one of the two announced topics: “The conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh: the summits of May 16 in Vienna and June 20 in Sankt Petersburg” and “The presidency of Armenia in the CSTO”. The applicants who pass the exam will be invited to an interview at the end of July. The programme starts in September 2016 and will end in the summer of 2017.