Callas promised to protect Armenia from foreign interference

ArmInfo. The European Union (EU) will help protect Armenia from foreign interference ahead of the country's elections. This was the promise made by European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas at a press conference following today's EU Foreign Ministers' Meeting.

"We will not leave Armenia alone to face foreign interference. Democracies under pressure can count on Europe," the diplomat assured.

According to her, the EU will deploy a "hybrid rapid response team" to the country to help Armenia counter threats ahead of the elections. Kallas emphasized that the issue of "the deterioration of democracy in Georgia" was also discussed at the meeting of foreign ministers.

As a reminder, Radio Liberty previously reported that they  had obtained a letter from Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan  to Brussels, in which he "requested the dispatch of a rapid response  team to Yerevan to counter Kremlin disinformation and Russian  interference in the parliamentary elections in Armenia." In this  regard, it was recalled that the EU sent a similar team of  approximately 20 people to Chisinau during last year's parliamentary  elections "to help Moldovan authorities identify and counter  disinformation emanating from Russia on social media." It should be  added that EU Chief Diplomat Kaja Kallas previously announced the  allocation of ?15 million to Armenia to "counter Russian propaganda."