Moscow and Baku on Tuesday slammed the release of a broadened EU keeping an eye on mission to Armenias volatile border with Azerbaijan.Arch Caucasus foes Armenia and Azerbaijan have actually battled 2 wars for control of the Nagorno-Karabakh border area but have recently made development towards a peace deal.The EU announced last week it had actually released a 100-member civilian mission (EUMA) for 2 years to the Armenian side of the frontier.The relocation comes amid growing Western engagement in the ex-Soviet area seen by the Kremlin as inside its sphere of influence.
The EU is openly abusing its relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov informed a press conference in Baku along with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov.He included that the EU mission raises doubts in regards to its legitimacy ...
functions, mandate and period.
Requested by Armenia, the border mission expanded a 40-member team that was released for 2 months late in 2015.
Armenias position at normalization talks with Baku has ended up being more destructive after the EU objective had actually been established, Bayramov said.He said the previous two-month mission failed to attain its goals.
Last week, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated that after what he called a positive conference with Armenian premier Nikol Pashinyan in Munich, Baku was studying Armenian propositions for a full peace treaty, which Yerevan had actually unveiled days before.When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ethnic Armenian separatists in Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan.
The occurring conflict claimed around 30,000 lives.
Another flare-up in violence in 2020 left more than 6,500 dead and ended after a Russian-brokered truce that saw Armenia cede areas it had actually managed for years.