Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on an EU civilian project along their border, where the worst fighting between the two countries since 2020 killed more than two hundred people last month, according to the European Council.
The mission, which will begin until the end of this month, aims to demarcate the border between the two countries for up to two months, the council said Friday.
The agreement was reached after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel met in Prague on Thursday on the sidelines of the first meeting of the European Political Community.
“Armenia and Azerbaijan showed their commitment to the Charter of the United Nations and the 1991 Declaration of Alma Ata through which they recognize each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty,” the European Council said.
The sworn foes, Armenia and Azerbaijan, are locked in a decades-long territorial dispute over Azerbaijan’s Muslim-majority Nagorno-Karabakh region with mostly Christian Armenian residents.
Last month, at least 286 other people were killed on both sides before a U. S. -brokered truce ended the worst fighting since 2020, when simmering tensions escalated into all-out war.
The clash killed more than 6,500 people in six weeks before a Russian-brokered ceasefire saw Armenia cede swaths of territory it had controlled for decades.
The two former Soviet neighbors have long noted Moscow’s influence in the volatile Caucasus region.
But Moscow is visibly wasting itself by focusing its attention on Ukraine, allowing the U. S. to move into Ukraine. The US and the EU play a leading role in mediating the normalization procedure between Armenia and Azerbaijan.