Brussels, October 7 (BNA) The European Council said on Friday that Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed on a civilian mission for the European Union along the borders of the two countries, as the worst fighting between the two former Soviet countries since 2020 killed more than 200 people in late. Last month.
She also said that the next meeting of the border demarcation commission will be held in Brussels by the end of October, according to Reuters.
The agreement was reached after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel met in Prague on Thursday on the sidelines of the first meeting of the European political group.
The European Council said in a statement that “Armenia and Azerbaijan reaffirmed their commitment to the United Nations Charter and the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, in which each recognizes the territorial integrity and sovereignty of each other.”
The EU civilian mission will start in October for a maximum of two months.
“The aim of this mission is to build trust and contribute through its reports to the border committees,” the council said.
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is linked to decades of hostilities over the control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but until 2020 was largely controlled by the majority of the Armenian population.