On Thursday 15 December, a senior European official told a small group of journalists, including EUROPE, that the EU was considering establishing a fully-fledged CSDP mission in Armenia to take over from the two-month border monitoring mission, whose mandate ends on 19 December (see EUROPE B13044A13). The 40-person mission was established following an agreement between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on 6 October (see EUROPE B13038A3).
The end of the mission “does not mean that...