(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 18. The aim of the
EU's mission in Armenia is to push Russia out of South Caucasus,
reports via
the Director of the Institute for Political Studies, Sergey
Markov's social media page.
'A new attack has begun against Russia. Today, the deployment of
observers from the EU on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border began. So
urgent that today they are being transferred from Georgia. It's
clear that these observers are almost all the military and special
services of NATO countries. The aim is to push Russia out of the
South Caucasus, including expelling Russian peacekeepers and
expelling the Russian military base in Gyumri,' he said.
Makarov believes that this is a joint plan of Prime Minister of
Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and President of France Emmanuel
Macron.
'All observers will be on the territory of Armenia. Russia
wanted CSTO observers to be stationed there, but Armenia blocked
observers from the CSTO. There was already a sharp public dispute
between the Foreign Minister of Russia and Armenia,' he added.
Earlier, foreign ministers of 27 EU countries agreed on sending
a civil mission to the Armenian side of the border with
Azerbaijan.
The Council has decided to deploy up to 40 EU monitoring experts
along the Armenian side of the international border with Azerbaijan
with the objective of monitoring, analyzing and reporting on the
situation in the region
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Josep Borrell noted that in order to ensure a swift deployment of
the EU monitoring capacity, it was decided that the monitoring
experts will be temporarily deployed from the European Union
Monitoring Mission in Georgia. Later, he informed that the EU's
civil mission is already in Armenia.
The monitoring mission will have a temporary nature and in
principle will not last more than two months.
The mission deployment issue was reflected in the statement
adopted on October 7 following the quadrilateral meeting of
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev with French President Emmanuel
Macron, President of the European Council Charles Michel and Prime
Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan in Prague.
The EU and France wanted to create a border monitoring mission
that would also operate on the territory of Azerbaijan and use it
to enter the region. Azerbaijan objected to this, and after a firm
position, it was decided that the mission will operate only on the
territory of Armenia. Azerbaijan will cooperate with the mission in
accordance with its interests.
The border mission will help build confidence and contribute to
the border delimitation process.
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