Minister of Defense of Armenia Suren Papikyan received today European Union’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar, the ministry said on social media.
Ambassador Andrea Wiktorin, Head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, also attended the meeting.
Minister Papikyan thanked Mr. Klaar for immediately responding to the situation and visiting the region. He presented the current situation caused by the September 13 large-scale aggression of Azerbaijan against Armenia’s sovereign territory.
The Minister said that this large-scale aggression is a pre-planned Azerbaijani provocation. Papikyan highlighted the need for addressed assessments by the international community, including the EU, to the aggression in terms of solving the situation.
EU Special Representative presented the position of the EU on the immediate stop of military operations, emphasizing the necessity of solving all existing disagreements exclusively with diplomatic tools. Toivo Klaar reaffirmed also the EU’s commitment to contribute to the resumption of the negotiation process and the reaching of agreements between the sides.
