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Armenpress: Azerbaijan is encroaching on Armenia’s territorial integrity, warns PM Pashinyan after deadly border attack

Talar Tumanian

 21:17, 1 September 2023

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan of encroaching on the territorial integrity of Armenia after Azeri forces killed 3 Armenian troops and wounded 2 others in a border attack on Friday.

“Today, Azerbaijani Armed Forces , using UAVs and mortars, attacked positions towards the Armenian combat outposts nearby Sotk & Norabak,  leaving 3 servicemen dead & 2 wounded. Encroachments on the territorial integrity of Armenia, combined with warmongering rhetoric, are a continuation of Azerbaijan’s policy,” PM Pashinyan said in a post on X.

The Armenian Ministry of Defense initially reported that the death toll was 4, but then updated it to 3.

Asbarez: UPDATED: 3 Armenian Soldiers Killed, 1 Injured as Azerbaijan Mounts Offensive on Gegharkunik Province

Elizabeth Jabejian
by Asbarez Staff

 

 September 1, 2023

 

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4 Armenian soldiers were killed


Armenia is reporting that three soldiers were killed and another was injured as Azerbaijan mounted an offensive against positions in the Gegharkunik Province on Friday.

The defense ministry initially announced the death toll to be three after doctors were able to revive one of the soldiers who was believed to have died.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan of encroaching on Armenia’s territorial integrity after Friday’s brazen attack.

“Today, Azerbaijani Armed Forces , using UAVs and mortars, attacked positions towards the Armenian combat outposts nearby Sotk & Norabak,  leaving 3 servicemen dead & 2 wounded. Encroachments on the territorial integrity of Armenia, combined with warmongering rhetoric, are a continuation of Azerbaijan’s policy,” Pashinyan said in a post on X.

“On September 1, the armed forces of Azerbaijan opened fire on the positions of the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia located in the area of Sotk and Norabak in the Gegharkunik region, which resulted in casualties of 4 killed and 1 wounded. Azerbaijan’s armed forces also used mortars and UAV,” the foreign ministry said in a statement that demanded Azerbaijan withdraw its troops from Armenia’s sovereign territory.

The attacks started in the early morning hours of Friday and have continued throughout the day.

Since around 7:50 a.m. local time, Azerbaijani forces began shooting at positions in Sotk and Norabak villages in Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province. According to Armenia’s Defense Ministry, as of 2:30 p.m. local time the attacks had subsided, but the situation remained tense.

Of the four fatalities, two of them are from Armenia’s Massis region. They were identified as Andranik Antonyan and Arsen Mkrtchyan. Davit Hambartsumyan, the mayor of Massis announced their names in a social media posts.

The Massis city council told Azatutyun.am that the two were taking part in a 25-day training exercises.

The Foreign Ministry strongly condemned Azerbaijan’s military aggression targeting Armenian border positions in Gegharkunik province and warned that Baku’s actions could seriously disrupt the efforts aimed at establishing stability and lasting peace in the region.

In a statement released Friday, the foreign ministry called on the international community to restrain “Azerbaijan’s growing maximalist behavior.”

Yerevan accused Baku of systematically disseminating false information as cover for military attacks against Armenian positions.
 
“The encroachments against the territorial integrity of Armenia, combined with the statements and bellicose rhetoric regularly made by the Azerbaijani side on various levels as well as channeled through various state media, are the continuation of Baku’s aggressive policy aimed at settling existing problems and imposing its own will through the use of force and the threat of use of force,” the foreign ministry said in its statement.

“Under the conditions of targeted calls and growing pressure to lift the illegal blockade of the Lachin corridor, Azerbaijan’s provocation is also aimed at diverting the attention of the international community and avoiding the fulfillment of its obligations,” added the statement.

“We strongly condemn Azerbaijan’s aggressive behavior, which is coupled with the overt siege of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh through the eight-month-long illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor, and can seriously disrupt the efforts aimed at establishing stability and lasting peace in the region. The Republic of Armenia reaffirms its principled position that all units of Azerbaijan’s armed forces must be withdrawn from the sovereign territory of Armenia,” Yerevan said.

“We call on the international community and the stakeholders interested in real stability in the region to restrain Azerbaijan’s daily increasing maximalist behavior through the existing mechanisms and active and clear steps in order to prevent further escalation of the situation and to bring Azerbaijan to a constructive track,” the statement said.

RFE/RL Armenian Service – 09/01/2023

Hovik Karapetian 
                                        Friday, September 1, 2023


EU Calls For Compromise On Karabakh Blockade


Moldova - European Council President Charles Michel visits Chisinau, March 28, 
2023.


The European Union’s top official on Friday called for “courageous compromise 
solutions” to the deepening humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh that would 
include a new supply route controlled by Azerbaijan.

“European Council President Charles Michel has proposed a step-by-step approach 
which would reflect a sequencing in the full-fledged operation of the Lachin 
corridor and the opening of the Aghdam route,” read a statement released by his 
spokeswoman, Ecaterina Casinge.

“The EU strongly believes the Lachin corridor must be unblocked, in line with 
past agreements and the [International Court of Justice] Order, and notes that 
the use of the Aghdam road to provide supplies can also be part of a concrete 
and sustainable solution to the provision of urgent and daily basic needs,” it 
said.

Despite struggling with worsening shortages of food and medicine, most residents 
of Karabakh appear to remain strongly opposed to the alternative supply line 
which Baku has set as a precondition for allowing renewed relief supplies 
through Karabakh’s land link with Armenia.

Scores of Karabakh Armenians have been blocking a road leading to the 
Azerbaijani town of Aghdam to prevent two Azerbaijani trucks loaded with 40 tons 
of flour from entering Karabakh. They as well as the authorities in Stepanakert 
believe that the proposed aid is a publicity stunt aimed at legitimizing the 
nearly nine-month blockade of the Lachin corridor and helping Azerbaijan regain 
full control over Karabakh.

Casinge said Michel and other EU officials have been “in frequent contact” with 
Baku, Yerevan and Karabakh representatives in recent weeks to advance the 
arrangement proposed by the EU chief.

“It is now time for courageous compromise solutions, also in light of today's 
escalation,” added Michel’s spokeswoman.

Reacting to Casinge’s statement, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said 
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian 
reached an agreement on the simultaneous reopening of the Lachin and Aghdam 
roads during their July 15 meeting in Brussels hosted by Michel. It claimed that 
the Armenian side did not honor the deal.

Baku already made such claims shortly after the Brussels summit. They were 
denied by Pashinian.

The dire humanitarian situation in Karabakh was on the agenda of a meeting of 
the foreign ministers of EU member states held in Spain on Thursday. Speaking 
after the meeting, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell renewed the 27-nation 
bloc’s calls for Azerbaijan to restore “safe and unhindered traffic” through the 
Lachin corridor.

The U.S. State Department also reiterated that Baku should “immediately reopen 
the Lachin corridor to humanitarian, commercial, and passenger traffic.” The 
department spokesman, Matthew Miller, at the same time backed “additional supply 
routes” for Karabakh.




International Court Treaty Sent To Armenian Parliament For Ratification


Netherlands -- The new building of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The 
Hague, on November 23, 2015.


Ignoring stern warnings from Russia, the Armenian government has formally asked 
the country’s parliament to ratify the founding treaty of the International 
Criminal Court (ICC).

The Armenian Constitutional Court gave the green light for parliamentary 
ratification of the treaty, also known as the Rome Statute, in March one week 
after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over 
war crimes allegedly committed by Russia in Ukraine. Moscow said shortly 
afterwards that Yerevan’s recognition of The Hague tribunal’s jurisdiction would 
have “extremely negative” consequences for Russian-Armenian relations.

Yury Vorobyov, a deputy speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament, brought 
up the issue during a meeting of Armenian and Russian lawmakers held in the 
Siberian city of Irkutsk in July. He warned of “significant damage” to bilateral 
ties.

Vorobyov’s Armenian counterpart, Hakob Arshakian, insisted during the meeting 
that Yerevan’s plans to submit to the ICC’s jurisdiction are “in no way directed 
against Russia” and are aimed instead at “preventing Azerbaijani attacks on the 
sovereign territory of Armenia.” Moscow was clearly unconvinced by similar 
assurances made by other Armenian officials earlier this year.

The government’s press office told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Friday that the 
Rome Statute has been submitted to the National Assembly for ratification. A 
spokesperson for parliament speaker Alen Simonian confirmed the information.

The parliament committee on legal affairs has to discuss the treaty within a 
month. The document will then be debated by the full assembly controlled by 
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party.

Armenia - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Russian President Vladimir 
Putin attend a CSTO summit in Yerevan, November 23, 2022.

Independent legal experts believe that recognition of the ICC’s jurisdiction 
would require the Armenian authorities to arrest Putin and extradite him to The 
Hague tribunal if he visits the South Caucasus country. Armenian opposition 
lawmakers have expressed serious concern over such a possibility, saying that it 
would ruin Armenia’s relationship with its key ally.

Russian-Armenian relations had already soured in the months leading up to the 
Constitutional Court’s March ruling due to what Pashinian’s administration sees 
as a lack of Russian support for Armenia in the conflict with Azerbaijan.

Arshakian said in Irkutsk that Armenian and Russian diplomats are holding 
“active discussions” on the matter. He expressed confidence that a “legal 
solution acceptable to Armenia and Russia” will be found.

It was not immediately clear whether Pashinian’s government wants lawmakers to 
ratify the Rome Statute unconditionally or with reservations relating to Russia. 
The full text of the relevant decision sent to the parliament was due to be 
publicized later in the day.




Three Armenian Soldiers Killed In Fresh Border Clashes (UPDATED)


Azerbaijani (L) and Armenian army posts near the Sotk gold mine in Armenia's 
Gegharkunik province, June 18, 2021


Three Armenian soldiers were killed and two others wounded on Friday in what the 
Defense Ministry in Yerevan called fresh Azerbaijani truce violations on the 
Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

The ministry reported the first two casualties in the morning when it said its 
troops deployed near the border village of Sotk in Armenia’s eastern Gegharkunik 
province came under “intensive” cross-border fire. The Azerbaijani side is also 
using mortars to strike the Armenian army positions there, it said, adding that 
“the intensity of the gunfire” eased by 11:20 a.m. local time.

The ministry reported renewed Azerbaijani mortar and automatic fire early in the 
afternoon. Azerbaijani troops are also targeting Armenian positions near 
Norabak, another Gegharkunik close to Sotk, it said.

“Armenian army units are taking necessary defensive measures,” read a fresh 
ministry statement.

The Azerbaijani military said, meanwhile, that it is taking “retaliatory 
actions” after three of its soldiers were wounded by Armenian forces. The 
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry issued a statement accusing Yerevan of heightening 
tensions along the border to mislead the international community.

Baku repeatedly accused the Armenian side of violating the ceasefire in the same 
area on Thursday. The Armenian Defense Ministry dismissed the “disinformation,” 
saying that it is aimed at justifying “yet another provocation.”

The Sotk area has been one of the most volatile sections of the long 
Armenian-Azerbaijani border since the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Deadly 
fighting raged there for several consecutive days in early May.

Armenia’s largest gold mine located near Sotk halted production operations in 
April due to systematic cross-border gunfire targeting its workers and 
production facilities. The village was shelled by the Azerbaijani army and 
sustained heavy damage during more large-scale clashes that broke out at this 
and other border sections in September 2022.


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Armenia, South Korea to sign agreement on economic, industrial, scientific and technical cooperation

Emil Lazarian

 10:37,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, ARMENPRESS. Armenia and South Korea plan to sign an agreement on economic, industrial, scientific and technical cooperation.

The bill approving the signing is included in the agenda of the August 31 Cabinet meeting.

The agreement is expected to allow to strengthen economic relations, enhance cooperation between companies, including SMEs, by creating favorable conditions for investments.

It will serve as a platform to strengthen and expand the economic, industrial, tourism, agricultural and scientific-technical cooperation, boost trade turnover and promote partnership.

The agreement envisages the creation of an Armenian-Korean Intergovernmental Commission for scientific-technical, economic and industrial affairs.

After humanitarian convoy gets blocked, Armenia slams Azerbaijan for ‘monstrous’ genocide through starvation in NK

Alex Jidarian

 11:30,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijan’s blocking of the humanitarian convoys for Nagorno-Karabakh means that Baku continues its policy of subjecting the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh to genocide through starvation in the presence of Russian peacekeepers, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned Thursday.

Speaking at the Cabinet meeting, PM Pashinyan stated that the Azerbaijani authorities continue to block access of the humanitarian convoys stranded near Lachin Corridor.

Another 10 trucks joined on August 31 the 22 trucks carrying essential humanitarian goods for Nagorno-Karabakh. The vehicles are stranded at the entrance of Lachin Corridor near the Armenian village of Kornidzor. The most recent convoy was sent by French regions and was personally escorted by the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.

“Nonetheless, neither this convoy nor the one stranded there since July 26 were allowed to enter Nagorno-Karabakh. This means that Azerbaijan, in the presence of Russian peacekeepers, continues its policy of subjecting the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh to genocide through starvation. The main goal of their policy is to get rid of Armenians from the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. As I said previously, one of the scenarios of developing this monstrous plan is the following, Azerbaijan plans to open the Lachin Corridor only in one direction at the most severe phase of the humanitarian crisis, to only allow people to leave Nagorno-Karabakh and not return. This policy of genocide and dispossession is taking place in the 21st century, before the eyes of the international community,” the Armenian Prime Minister said.

Pashinyan added that the situation could be resolved through Baku-Stepanakert dialogue under an international mechanism.

“I find it noteworthy that an international mechanism in this situation is crucially necessary, otherwise, as we’ve ascertained, Baku is derailing with all possible means the opportunity for dialogue,” Pashinyan concluded.

Armenia reiterates need for international fact-finding mission in Lachin Corridor and Nagorno-Karabakh

Vardan Badalian

 11:38,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that his administration will continue to advance the need for dispatching an international fact-finding mission to Lachin Corridor and Nagorno-Karabakh, something he described as an “absolute necessity.”

Speaking at the August 31 Cabinet meeting, PM Pashinyan said that the Armenian government must continue efforts to draw international attention on the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rulings of 22 February and 6 July must be in the focus.

“With these rulings, the ICJ ordered Azerbaijan to take all steps at its disposal to ensure unimpeded movement of persons, vehicles and cargo along the Lachin Corridor in both directions. The court emphasized that the ruling is binding by law for Azerbaijan. The explicit disregard for this ruling by Azerbaijan is an overt manifestation of its policy of dispossession, because disregard for binding rulings is characteristic to the conduct of those who are committing such policy. And we must tirelessly advance the idea of sending an international fact-finding mission to Lachin Corridor and Nagorno-Karabakh, because especially now this is an absolute necessity,” PM Pashinyan said.

The Armenian Prime Minister added that ensuring access of essential humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh is a priority task.

EU foreign ministers to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh

Emil Lazarian

 12:40,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, ARMENPRESS. EU foreign ministers will discuss the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh during their meeting on August 31 in Spain, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said.

She said that Nagorno-Karabakh has been included in the agenda by herself and the French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.

She described the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh as “disastrous” and emphasized the importance of opening the Lachin Corridor, according to TASS news agency.

“We are resolutely calling upon Azerbaijan and Russia, that the people of Nagorno-Karabakh must eventually get what’s necessary for life. The Lachin Corridor must be open for humanitarian aid,” Baerbock said.

Baerbock added that discussions have been ongoing for several days with United States to guarantee that the people of Nagorno-Karabakh will receive humanitarian aid.

Yerevan “confused and disappointed” over Russian Foreign Ministry blaming Armenia for situation in Lachin Corridor

Emil Lazarian

 12:27,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova who claimed that the situation in the Lachin corridor is a consequence of the fact that referring to the Alma-Ata Declaration, in Prague, October 2022 Armenia recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan.

The Armenian foreign ministry said that Zakharova’s comments cause “confusion and disappointment.”

Below is the full statement by Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan.

“Another comment by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia of similar content claiming that the situation unfolded in the Lachin corridor is a consequence of the fact that referring to the Alma-Ata Declaration, in Prague, October 2022 Armenia recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, and after that, the task of the Russian peacekeepers became the possible influence on the issues of rights and security of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, causes confusion and disappointment.

We are compelled to recall the following, already well-known chronology and important circumstances.

  • The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has never been a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In essence, it has always been and remains an issue of the rights and security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh.

  • In August 2022, Armenia agreed to Russia’s draft proposal on the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, according to which the discussion of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh was supposed to be postponed for an indefinite period. Azerbaijan rejected the proposal, simultaneously announcing (as it did on August 31 in Brussels) that it is not going to discuss anything related to Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, and days later, on September 13, it launched military aggression against the sovereign territory of Armenia.
  • Russia not only did not pursue its proposal after Azerbaijan's refusal, but also showed absolute indifference to the aggression against the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, leaving Armenia's official letter to support the Republic of Armenia on the basis of the bilateral legal framework unanswered. Moreover, Russia conditioned the lack of stating the fact of the attack on Armenia and the resulting inaction under the false excuse that the interstate border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is not delimited. By this approach it either intentionally or not supports the obviously false and extremely dangerous thesis which claims that there is no border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, therefore, attacking the border and the invasion into the territory of Armenia are difficult to verify. With the same mindset, Armenia's similar application in the framework of the CSTO did not receive a proper response either.

  • Under these conditions, on October 6, 2022, in Prague, Armenia and Azerbaijan reaffirmed their loyalty to the Alma-Ata Declaration, which was signed back in 1991 by the former Soviet republics, including Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, who recognized each other's territorial integrity along the former administrative borders of the Soviet states. Therefore, nothing new was decided in Prague: as of October 2022, the Alma-Ata Declaration had been in force for about 31 years. The agreements in Prague did not change anything in the text of the Trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, either. The only novelty was that, based on the results of the Prague meeting, the EU decided to deploy a monitoring mission on the Armenian side of the interstate border between Armenia and Azerbaijan to contribute to the stability at the border.

  • The Russian Federation recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan multiple times, including after the signing of the Trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, and the most recent and perhaps most significant one: it stated that it recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan in the document on establishing strategic relations with Azerbaijan.

  • On December 12, 2022, the Lachin corridor was blocked, under the false pretext of protests organized by the authorities of Azerbaijan in the area of the control of the Russian peacekeeping contingent. Already in April 2023, in the presence of Russian peacekeepers, Azerbaijan installed an illegal checkpoint in the Lachin corridor. Although these actions were a clear and gross violation of the Trilateral statement, the Russian Federation took no counteractions. Instead, Russian peacekeepers on June 15, 2023, actively supported the attempt to raise the Azerbaijani flag on the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, which is outside the scope of their mission and geographical area of responsibility. This was immediately followed by the total blockade of the Lachin corridor, bringing the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh closer to a true humanitarian catastrophe.

  • In the conditions of such arbitrariness in the presence of Russian peacekeepers, the Azerbaijani side resorts to steps such as the abduction of residents of Nagorno-Karabakh at the illegal checkpoint in the Lachin corridor: the case of abduction of Vagif Khachatryan on July 29, followed by the case of three students on August 28.

  • Unfortunately, such practices of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh are nothing new. On December 11, 2020, the violation of the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh, the illegal occupation of Khtsaberd and Hin Tagher villages, the capture and transfer of 60 Armenian servicemen to Baku took place in Nagorno-Karabakh with the presence and permission of representatives of the Russian peacekeeping contingent. At that time, the agreements of October 6, 2022, were not reached. The same applies to the events of Parukh on March 24, 2022, and Saribab on August 1, 2022, when Azerbaijan again violated the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh. The logical continuation of this are the shootings by Azerbaijani armed forces in the presence of Russian peacekeepers towards people carrying out agricultural works, one of which ended with the killing of a tractor driver from Martakert; the intimidation of the Nagorno-Karabakh population with night lights and loudspeakers again in the presence of Russian peacekeepers; the thousands of violations of the ceasefire regime by the Azerbaijani armed forces again in the presence of Russian peacekeepers.

We advise the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry to refrain from maneuvering the circumstances of the situation and thereby further complicating it in the absence of actions from Russian peacekeepers towards the prevention of the blockade of the Lachin corridor or its opening afterwards.

We also reiterate that the Republic of Armenia is faithful to its commitment towards establishing stability in the region on the basis of mutual recognition of territorial integrity and borders. At the same time, we consider imperative for lasting peace the reopening of the Lachin corridor in accordance with the Trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, and in line with the Orders of the International Court of Justice, the prevention of a humanitarian catastrophe in Nagorno-Karabakh and addressing of all existing problems through the Baku-Stepanakert dialogue under international auspices.”

BREAKING: Nagorno-Karabakh President to resign

Nyrie Kalashian

 12:57,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, ARMENPRESS. Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) President Arayik Harutyunyan has announced his intention to resign.

In a statement released on August 31, Harutyunyan said he will resign on Friday.

“I made this final decision two days ago, taking into account my contacts in the past weeks with all domestic and foreign actors and the public,” he added.

Harutyunyan said he will continue to live in Nagorno-Karabakh with his family and will support the authorities.

“This step is aimed, among others, at ensuring strong public order and domestic stability in Artsakh. Despite all difficulties, our domestic stability and public solidarity are preconditions for all successes, and any deviation or attempted deviation from this must be ruled out,” he added.

Harutyunyan also signed an executive order on dismissing State Minister Gurgen Nersisyan and replacing him with Secretary of the Security Council of Nagorno-Karabakh Samvel Shahramanyan.




Armenian government approves signing agreement on EUMA status

Arpi Talalian

 13:21,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, ARMENPRESS. The Government of Armenia has approved the signing of the Agreement on the Status of the European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA) between Armenia and the EU.

The approval was made at the Cabinet meeting on August 31.

The agreement complies with the Armenian law on International Treaties and is in line with the government’s foreign policy and international obligations, the foreign ministry said.

EUMA is a non-executive, non-armed civilian Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) Mission. EUMA observes and reports on the security situation along the Armenian side of the international border with Azerbaijan.

It was established in response to a request by Armenia.