EU Officially Approves Dispatch of Observers to Armenia-Azerbaijan Border

 The European Council announced on Monday that the European Union had decided to send up to 40 observers to the Armenian side of the international border with Azerbaijan.

"The Council today decided to deploy up to 40 EU monitoring experts along the Armenian side of the international border with Azerbaijan with the objective of monitoring, analysing and reporting on the situation in the region," the Council said in a statement, Sputnik reported.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the move was "another proof of the EU's full commitment to contributing to the ultimate goal of achieving sustainable peace in the South Caucasus."

The observers will be temporarily redeployed from the EU monitoring mission in neighboring Georgia, the statement said.