President of Azerbaijan: "The civilian mission of the European Union will be located in Armenia, in the zone of responsibility of the CSTO"

The civilian mission of the European Union will be located on the territory of Armenia, in the zone of responsibility of the CSTO.

Qazet.az reports that the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said this in his speech at the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS in Astana.

The head of state said that 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:

"As a result of several hours of negotiations at the meeting, a decision was made to send a 40-member civilian mission of the European Union to the territory of Armenia near the Armenian-Azerbaijani border."

"Later it became known to us that their number will be 50 people. They will be there for at least two months. The purpose of this mission, as we have seen, is to assist the parties in drawing borders and defining issues related to delimitation. That's why we agreed to it," the head of state said.

President Ilham Aliyev stated that there were attempts to send this mission to the Azerbaijani side, which was firmly rejected by Azerbaijan.

"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 placement of this mission."