EU sets up monitoring capacity in Armenia along its international border with Azerbaijan

Baku, October 17, AZERTAC The European Council today decided to deploy up to 40 EU monitoring experts along the Armenian side of the international border with Azerbaijan with the objective of monitoring, analysing and reporting on the situation in the region, according to the official website of the organization. This decision follows the quadrilateral meeting between President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of France Emmanuel Macron and President of the European Council Charles Michel on 6 October, and is aimed at facilitating the restoration of peace and security in the area, the building of confidence and the delimitation of the international border between the two states. The monitoring mission will have a temporary nature and in principle will not last more than two months.