>European Council President Charles Michel is renewing efforts to bring a lasting peace to the South Caucasus, as tensions rise in the war-torn region.
>Speaking to POLITICO, two senior diplomats confirmed that the former Belgian prime minister had held bilateral meetings with the leaders of both Armenia and Azerbaijan on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit in the United Kingdom earlier this month.
>Michel has also written to the two sides, calling on them to return to the table and “finalize the peace agreement” by making progress on outstanding issues like border delimitation.
>However, frustration has been growing in Brussels after months of delays and diplomatic deadlock that has seen a long-awaited truce fail to materialize.
>Despite the meetings with Michel, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev failed to find an opportunity to sit down together — with both sides pointing the finger at the other for the standoff.
>“Ultimately, it’s up to both sides to stop playing games and seal the deal as President Michel has done everything in the EU’s power to reach a peace agreement,” a senior EU diplomat close to Michel said.
Any_Yoghurt_4038 on
ridiculous how they fail to directly address the main side avoiding negotiations puting the blame on both Arm and Az equally. EU indeed is a joke. We are in such a shitty situation and our only hope is Kamala’s win at the elections. I don’t see anyone besides US having enough power to help us withstand the Rus+Az+Turk tandem.
RebootedShadowRaider on
My god, the EU are SO bad at this. It’s comical. It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. It’s like they’re really pushing for gold in the Ineptitude Olympics.
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>European Council President Charles Michel is renewing efforts to bring a lasting peace to the South Caucasus, as tensions rise in the war-torn region.
>Speaking to POLITICO, two senior diplomats confirmed that the former Belgian prime minister had held bilateral meetings with the leaders of both Armenia and Azerbaijan on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit in the United Kingdom earlier this month.
>Michel has also written to the two sides, calling on them to return to the table and “finalize the peace agreement” by making progress on outstanding issues like border delimitation.
>However, frustration has been growing in Brussels after months of delays and diplomatic deadlock that has seen a long-awaited truce fail to materialize.
>Despite the meetings with Michel, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev failed to find an opportunity to sit down together — with both sides pointing the finger at the other for the standoff.
>“Ultimately, it’s up to both sides to stop playing games and seal the deal as President Michel has done everything in the EU’s power to reach a peace agreement,” a senior EU diplomat close to Michel said.
ridiculous how they fail to directly address the main side avoiding negotiations puting the blame on both Arm and Az equally. EU indeed is a joke. We are in such a shitty situation and our only hope is Kamala’s win at the elections. I don’t see anyone besides US having enough power to help us withstand the Rus+Az+Turk tandem.
My god, the EU are SO bad at this. It’s comical. It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. It’s like they’re really pushing for gold in the Ineptitude Olympics.
Indeed