{"id":11436,"date":"2025-01-16T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onnik-krikorian.com\/new_site\/?p=11436"},"modified":"2025-03-08T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:49:30","slug":"azerbaijan-seeks-end-to-eu-mission-in-armenia-as-pashinyan-offers-border-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onnik-krikorian.com\/new_site\/azerbaijan-seeks-end-to-eu-mission-in-armenia-as-pashinyan-offers-border-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan Seeks End to EU Mission in Armenia as Pashinyan Offers Border Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;3px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;9px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-52px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;32px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo: European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>On December 30, 2024, Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB) border guards left Armenia\u2019s Agarak border checkpoint with Iran at the end of December 2024 <\/span><span>. This follows the FSB border guard\u2019s withdrawal from Yerevan\u2019s Zvartnots Airport at the end of July 2024<\/span><span>. The move had been anticipated by several pro-government activists in Armenia who had already called for their removal to cut off Russian access to the country\u2019s Border Electronic Management Information System. This applies, however, only to the checkpoint and not the entire length of the Armenia-Iran border. Instead, FSB border guards will now be joined by an unknown number of Armenian National Security Service (NSS) border guards to jointly perform duties. Until now, the FSB guards have been solely responsible for guarding Armenia\u2019s borders with Iran and T\u00fcrkiye, as stipulated in a 1992 agreement between Yerevan and Moscow. Their withdrawal from the checkpoint represents a symbolic reduction in Armenia\u2019s reliance on Russia for its security needs and a gradual diversification away from Moscow in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan can tout the development as a successful move in\u00a0 exerting gradual control of its sovereign territory in a pre-election year, but another development relating to a different border could prove more difficult and perhaps even more sensitive<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">. Following clashes on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border in September 2022, the European Union deployed a Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) civilian observation mission to reduce tensions between the sides. That decision stemmed from the October 6, 2022 meeting between Pashinyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart, President Ilham Aliyev, alongside the presidents of the European Council and France, Charles Michel and Emmanuel Macron, at the first-ever European Political Community (EPC) summit in Prague<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">. The temporary mission was able to deploy quickly because it was made up of 40 monitors already in neighboring Georgia as part of the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) on the Administrative Boundary Lines with the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[\u2026]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Responding to renewed demands from Baku that EUMA be withdrawn from the Armenian side of the shared border, Pashinyan said in November that he has instead offered to withdraw it only from those parts of the border that have been demarcated.\u00a0It is implied, however, that this would include other parts once they are demarcated in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[\u2026]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em style=\"font-size: 15px;\">\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>The demand for EUMA to withdraw is also just one of many conditions from Baku for an Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement, including on the constitution. Failure to agree on all demands might lead to continued deadlock throughout 2025. For now, Yerevan has not publicly stated whether it has officially requested EUMA extend its mission next month even though the European Union has offered to do so.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container-files row small-up-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-social hide-for-print\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container-files row small-up-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-social hide-for-print\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The full analysis is available <a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/program\/azerbaijan-seeks-end-to-eu-mission-in-armenia-as-pashinyan-offers-border-compromise\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][dsm_text_divider header=&#8221;CONFLICT VOICES e-BOOKS&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][\/dsm_text_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; gutter_width=&#8221;1&#8243; 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