Klaar: EU participation in ensuring peace in South Caucasus is not  directed against anyone

ArmInfo. The participation of the European Union in ensuring peace in the South Caucasus is not directed against anyone.

This was stated by the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar during discussions on the topic: "Security in the South  Caucasus: What is the role of the EU?", organized by the  Brussels-based European Policy Center.  According to Klaar, the EU is  interested in the prosperity of the South Caucasus, ensuring peace  and stability in this region: "Positive development in the region is  in our interests. Our participation in ensuring this is not directed  against anyone. The South Caucasus is in our neighborhood, and we  want peace and stability here."

The Special Representative added that Russia's war against Ukraine  has not made significant changes in the policy and activation of the  EU in the region.  According to APA, Klaar noted that after the  44-day war in 2020, the EU began to work more actively with the  countries of the region: "I would like to note once again that the EU  was involved in the process earlier, our contacts did not increase  due to the occupation of Ukraine, before that we already had these  contacts".

At the same time, he pointed to the continuation of negotiations on a  peace agreement and the exchange of texts of its possible version.  According to him, the process does not stop. "But the issue that was  also raised today is what will happen after the signing of the peace  agreement, how will we ensure a comprehensive peace, and these relate  not only to the rights and security of Karabakh Armenians, but also  to communications as wlell as how people in Armenia and Azerbaijan  will start communication. One thing have a peace agreement, but  ultimately the issues arising from this conflict must be resolved,"  the EU Special Representative concluded.