President: "A decision was made to send a 40-member EU mission to Armenia, later we learned that their number will be 50"

"On October 6, within the framework of the new platform of the "European political union", a quadrilateral meeting was organized in Prague with the participation of the President of France, the President of the Council of the European Union, the Prime Minister of Armenia and the President of Azerbaijan. a decision was made to send a civilian mission of the European Union consisting of 40 people to its territory. Later it became known to us that their number will be 50 people."

Qazet.az reports that President Ilham Aliyev said this during his speech at the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Astana on October 14.

"They will be there for at least 2 months. The purpose of this mission, as we see, is to help the parties in drawing borders and defining issues related to delimitation. That is why we agreed to it. There were also attempts to send this mission to the Azerbaijani side, but these attempts were decisively rejected by us. was rejected. Therefore, the mission will be located on the territory of Armenia, in the area of ​​responsibility of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Yesterday, the first group of European representatives went to Armenia to determine the location of this mission," the head of state said.