Ug news report:
In the mid-December briefing on the results of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Eastern Partnership countries, Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, while answering questions about the fate of the civilian mission, stated that the mission, in accordance with the agreements with both Armenia and Azerbaijan, will end on December 19. will finish his work. Borrell also noted that the EU will send a delegation to Armenia to discuss possible civilian missions in 2023 to maintain its reputation as a mediator in the dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Borrel concluded his opinion as follows: “The activities of the EU mission on the Armenia-Azerbaijani border will end on December 19.” No report of this mission has been published in any of the open sources for the past two months. Despite this,
Political scientist Yegane Hajiyeva, the chairman of the Public Union of the Institute of Young Democrats, said these words in his statement to ug news .The political scientist said: “From the views of the head of the EU foreign policy department, it was clear that official Brussels was also “satisfied” with the “work” of the mission. The decision of the EU to send a short-term civilian mission to Armenia was made as a result of an agreement at a joint meeting in Prague. The appointment of the civilian mission was aimed at assisting Armenia in the delimitation process, in parallel with monitoring the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. The activity of the EU short-term mission took place with the consent of the Azerbaijani side. However, the decision to continue the short-term mission concluded on December 19 by turning it into a long-term mission is a decision made unilaterally by the EU, and this decision was not agreed with Azerbaijan. We can explain this as
Yegane Hajiyeva noted that Azerbaijan does not consider the initiatives of Armenia to escalate the situation on the border through provocations, and to use this to enter the region by foreign forces under the name of a civilian mission, useful. Foreign powers, for example, France, see these escalations as an opportunity to gain foothold in the region and deploy their military contingent in the area. Borrell’s statement also conveys the message that the new mission will cover the security issues of Armenia, which traditionally cooperates with Russia in military and security matters, in parallel with border control. These initiatives are initiatives that will give rise to new escalations in order to satisfy external interests for a region where there are already enough powers, and we have been following them since September. But in that case.
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