EU Ambassadors agree to send civilian mission to Armenia

ArmInfo.The ambassadors of the European Union today agreed to send a civilian mission to Armenia, which will be deployed along the border with Azerbaijan to  build confidence and promote border delimitation. The decision was  made at a closed meeting of the commission on political and security  issues,

As RFE/RL's Armenian Service reportr citing its  diplomatic sources  in Brussels, details of  the decision  are now being discussed,  in particular those concerning how many people the mission will  consist of, from which countries and the dates of their arrival to  Armenia. However, it is clear that the mission will arive.

An agreement to send a civilian mission to Armenia was reached last  week in Prague as a result of many hours of negotiations between the  leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, France and the Council of Europe.   Baku, which had previously rejected the EU's proposal to deploy armed  forces on the border with Armenia, did not object to the unarmed  mission, while emphasizing that it would cooperate "to the extent  appropriate." According to the quadripartite statement,  the mission  will start its activities in October which will last for two months.   Diplomats do not rule out that some of the observers may arrive in  Armenia from Georgia, where the EU mission has been deployed since  September 2008, after a short Russian-Georgian war.