Decision Made, EU Mission to Arrive in Armenia: Media

The ambassadors of the European Union have today agreed to send a civilian mission to Armenia, which will be stationed along the border with Azerbaijan to strengthen confidence and facilitate delimitation. The decision was made during a closed meeting of the Political and Security Committee, as reported by diplomatic sources from ‘Liberty’.

Details of the mission's implementation are currently being discussed, including how many personnel will be deployed, from which countries, and when they will arrive in Armenia. However, it is clear that the mission will come, said a diplomatic source in Brussels to ‘Liberty’.

The importance of the mission was also highlighted yesterday by Toivo Klaar, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, during a meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Defence. “The full support of member states, as well as the European Parliament, is extremely important for the implementation of the EU's peace efforts,” he stated.

The agreement to send a civilian mission to Armenia was reached last week in Prague, following lengthy negotiations among the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, France, and the European Council. Baku, which had previously rejected the EU's proposal to deploy armed forces along the border with Armenia, did not oppose an unarmed mission but emphasized that it would cooperate “as much as it will be related.”