ArmInfo. Brussels "takes note" of the announced withdrawal of Russian troops from Nagorno-Karabakh, a European Union official has said.
"What we can say is that we take note of the announced withdrawal of Russian troops from Azerbaijan. We further add that the EU remains committed to supporting the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan," Peter Stano, lead spokesperson for the EU's Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said as quoted by Azerbaijan's Turan news agency on Thursday.
Moscow and Baku confirmed on April 17 the start of the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Nagorno-Karabakh where about 2,000 of them were deployed since November 2020 as part of a trilateral ceasefire agreement also including Yerevan that put an end to a six-week Armenian-Azerbaijani war over the region that was then mostly populated by ethnic Armenians.