Armenia sends agreement on EU monitoring mission status to parliament

The Armenian government has approved the agreement on the status of the EU intelligence and surveillance mission on the conditional Armenian-Azerbaijani border and sent it to the parliament for ratification.

The resolution was adopted at the Cabinet meeting on January 24, Caliber.Az reports citing Armenian media.

The agreement was signed on November 20, 2023 by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Paruyr Hovhannisyan and the Head of the European Union Delegation to Armenia, Vassilis Maragos.

The document stipulates all technical issues related to the activities of the monitoring mission, including their accommodation and medical care. These issues will be solved for the members of the mission in the same way as for foreign diplomats.

A number of Armenian experts stated that the observers in Armenia, who are representatives of NATO countries, particularly Germany and France, are intelligence agents. And their main mission is to gather information about the Russian military presence in Armenia and to keep an eye on Iran.