Armenia Archives - Page 12 of 42 - Onnik James Krikorian - Journalist, Photojournalist, Consultant

Expectations, Hopes, and Fears accompany new European Union Mission in Armenia

Feb 1, 2023 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, European Union, Nagorno Karabakh, Russia

The International Crisis Group (ICG) has published a report on the potential role of the new European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA) once it is deployed to patrol the country’s sometimes volatile border with Azerbaijan later this month. The mission, a dedicated deployment, is more on par with the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in neighbouring Georgia than the temporary and much shorter-term European Union Monitoring Capacity (EUMCAP) that ended on 19 December last year.

European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA) to contribute to normalising relations with Azerbaijan

Jan 25, 2023 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, European Union, Nagorno Karabakh

Despite Baku’s concerns with this week’s decision to deploy a dedicated two-year European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA), and with political tensions still heightened over the continuing impasse on the strategic Lachin Corridor, there could be some hope on the not too distant horizon. Possibly.

European Union Establishes Longer-Term Monitoring Mission in Armenia

Jan 25, 2023 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Balcani Caucaso, European Union, Nagorno Karabakh

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso has today published my piece on the new European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA), a longer-term monitoring mission that will take over from the European Union Monitoring Capacity (EUMCAP) on the country’s border with Azerbaijan that ended its two-month deployment late last month.

Corridors, Highways, and Revisiting Key West

Jan 22, 2023 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh, United States

Eurasianet last week published a piece on what we anyway knew were long-standing disagreements over the construction of a new highway that would connect Azerbaijan with Nakhichevan via Armenia as dictated by the November 2020 trilateral ceasefire statement. It also quoted an anonymous government official as saying that Baku expected a dedicated road in much the same way that the Lachin Corridor passes through Azerbaijan.

Final confirmation of the European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA) expected on 23 January

Jan 17, 2023 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, European Union, Nagorno Karabakh

As had been expected, a final decision on the deployment of a larger and longer-term Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) civilian monitor mission to Armenia will be made by the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on Monday, 23 January. This follows a preliminary decision already taken by the Political and EU Security Committee (PSC).

Social, Economic, and Political Pressures increase in Besieged Karabakh

Jan 16, 2023 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Lachin Corridor, Nagorno Karabakh

Tomorrow, 17 January, residents of what remains of the besieged and breakaway Soviet-era Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) will be allocated ration coupons for basic and essential foodstuffs as control of the strategic Lachin Corridor by self-identified Azerbaijani environmental activists enters its second month. Despite their claims, however, most consider the effective but albeit partial blockade of the region, situated within Azerbaijan but populated mostly by ethnic Armenians, to be more than just about that.

Ration Coupon system to start operation in Karabakh on 20 January

Jan 14, 2023 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Lachin Corridor, Nagorno Karabakh

Not unexpectedly, on 20 January, certain food products in Karabakh will only be available via a rationing coupon or voucher system. This had already been announced by defacto State Minister on 8 January before it was then announced yesterday that it would brought into operation on 20 January. This is something anyway anticipated when stocks in shops started to increasingly disappear or sell out quickly. The coupons will be distributed on 17 January.

Some residents had already been quoted by media calling for such a system as the effective siege of Karabakh on the Lachin Corridor enters its second month.

European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA) likely planned for February 2023

Jan 11, 2023 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, European Union, Nagorno Karabakh

On 4 January, the European Union External Action Service (EEAS) posted a call for contributions to a new EU Mission to Armenia (EUMA) that would monitor the country’s fragile and sometimes volatile border with neighbouring Azerbaijan. Most positions for the civilian Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) mission would be secondments from EU countries and 69 are currently being advertised with a deadline of 19 January.

Ankara gives Green Light for Direct Armenia-Turkey Cargo Flights

Jan 8, 2023 | Armenia, Armenia-Turkey, Turkey

Though it had been announced in early December that direct cargo flights would start between Armenia and Turkey by the end of last year, the apparent deadlock in the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process, as well as the impasse between Yerevan, Baku, and Stepanakert on the Lachin Corridor, hardly prepared anyone for such an eventuality. However, a news report published by the Andalou News Agency on 6 January 2023 confirmed that Ankara had indeed given the go-ahead for such flights starting 1 January.

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