ArmInfo. On January 10, the Secretary of the Security Council, Armen Grigoryan, received the members of the EU technical assessment mission headed by Marcin Wydra. Andrea Victorin, the head of the EU delegation in Armenia, also participated in the meeting.
According to the press service of the RA Security Council, Welcoming the mission members' visit to Armenia, the Secretary of the Security Council highly appreciated the activities of the EU monitoring mission that ended on December 19 and once again reaffirmed Armenia's readiness to contribute to the work of the new EU civilian mission. The parties referred to the scope of activities of the new EU civil mission and its deployment and discussed other issues of mutual interest.
It should be noted that on December 20, 2022, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, made a statement in which he noted that on December 19, the EU monitoring group in Armenia (EUMCAP), launched in October, completed its mandate. Borrell recalled that the mission was deployed on October 20 on the basis of an agreement between the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Council of Europe and France in order to monitor, analyze and report on the situation on the ground The Council, in consultation with the Armenian authorities, decided that the existing EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM in Georgia) would send a temporary planning assistance team to Armenia to raise EU awareness of the security situation and to contribute to the planning and preparation of a possible civilian mission under the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) in the country.