Advance team of EU monitors arrives in Armenia today
YEREVAN, Oct. 14. /ARKA/. The first group of EU observers will arrive in Yerevan on Friday, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar said.
‘Today advance team of monitors arrives in Yerevan. The 27 Member States have acted rapidly to respond to request. The aim of the deployment will be to monitor the situation and support stabilization on the ground,’ Klaar tweeted.
On October 6, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel held a meeting in Prague on the sidelines of the European Political Community Summit.
In a statement adopted at the end of the meeting, Armenia and Azerbaijan confirmed their commitment to the UN Charter and the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991, through which both sides recognize each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
They confirmed that this will serve as basis for the work of the commissions on delimitation and that the next meeting of these commissions will take place in Brussels by the end of October.
Armenia expressed its agreement to encourage the EU civilian mission along the border with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan agreed to cooperate with the mentioned mission to the extent it will be concerned. The mission will start its work in October, for a maximum period of two months.
The purpose of the mission will be to build confidence and, through its reports, support the border commissions. -0
