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Baku/24.01.23/Turan: The deployment of the EU monitoring mission in Armenia "should take into account the legitimate interests of Azerbaijan and not undermine mutual trust." This is stated in the commentary of the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry due to the decision of the Council of the European Union to send an observer mission to the border with Armenia.
Monitoring of EU observers on the border with Azerbaijan began after the agreement on October 6, 2022 in Prague during a meeting of the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, France and the head of the EU Council. Azerbaijan agreed to this mission, believing that it contributes to the process of normalization of the situation.
After a number of EU member states took a biased position, the activities of the monitoring mission began to "contradict the Prague agreement."
The activity of the EU monitoring mission in Armenia coincided with the intensification of Armenia's attempts to "disrupt" the process of normalization of relations in all directions. "This has shaken expectations from the EU mission and prospects for normalizing the situation in the region."
Baku informed the EU representatives that the functioning of the EU mission in Armenia became "a pretext for Yerevan to evade the fulfillment of its obligations."
Attempts to use the EU mission against the already existing mechanisms of dialogue between Baku and Yerevan are "dangerous, and this should not be done," the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a comment. -02D-
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