EU ambassadors will discuss and decide to extend the EU observer mission in Armenia in Brussels today.
According to Rikard Jozwiak, Europe editor of RFE/RL, unless there are last-minute surprises, the ambassadors will approve a draft that will keep the EU civilian mission in Armenia for another two years, until February 19, 2027. The draft decision will keep the composition and number of observers unchanged: 165 international and 44 Armenian staff. According to the official statement, the mission’s observation zone extends along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, including the Nakhichevan section.
“Given the size of the area, the mission is not able to observe every incident along the border with the resources at its disposal,” the monitoring mission announced after its deployment, detailing that “patrols strive to visit the locations where incidents have occurred and then report on them to the EU headquarters, based on information received from open sources and reliable eyewitnesses.”
