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Armenia/Azerbaijan – Q&A – Extract from the each day press briefing (17 March 2023)

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Q: Prime minister Nikol Pashinyan would really like for the U.N. to offer peacekeepers to observe the border with Azerbaijan and change the ineffective Russian troopers. Is France in favor of this proposal?

A: As Minister for Europe and Overseas Affairs Catherine Colonna indicated as soon as once more earlier than the Nationwide Meeting on March 14, along with the EU and the US, we’re in fixed contact with each Armenia and Azerbaijan in an effort to succeed in a peace settlement.

It’s on this spirit that the civilian European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA) was deployed to Armenia alongside the border with Azerbaijan for 2 years on February 20. EUMA goals to assist decrease the variety of incidents in battle affected areas and in Armenia’s border areas along with constructing confidence and human safety within the area, thereby selling the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the bottom. EUMA builds on the quadrilateral assembly that passed off in Prague on October 6, which was organized on the invitation of the President of the French Republic. This assembly acknowledged the institution of an preliminary, momentary, 2-month-long EU mission and predated the EU monitoring mission that’s at the moment deployed.

At France’s initiative, the UN Safety Council met a number of instances in September 2022, following clashes alongside the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Starting on December 12, France additionally took motion to place an finish to the blockade of the Lachin Hall by asking for 2 new Safety Council conferences to be held and by suggesting that its members negotiate a press assertion.

We’ll proceed to work to help compliance with the ceasefire, dialogue and continued negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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