EU Presence

"The EU is neither willing nor capable of countering Russia or Turkey in Armenia and Azerbaijan" and "and will not make efforts to decrease Russian influence in Armenia and the unrecognized Nagorno Karabakh Republic", argues Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed.

The European Union Ambassador in Azerbaijan, Kestudis Jankauskas was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Baku on Friday evening. The Azerbaijani government protested against the holding of a meeting the previous day between the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Toivo Klaar, and the de facto foreign minister of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, David Babayan