Events of the week: EU mission stays, USAID phases out

Last week European Union announced it will extend its the observation mission in Armenia for another two years, leaving its size and scope of powers unchanged. How important is this decision for Armenia and what impact can it have on the Armenian-Azerbaijani process?

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that he would agree to the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group if there were guarantees of overcoming the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. What message does this statement of the Prime Minister contain and is the formal existence of the Minsk Group institution as important at the current stage of bilateral relations?

The new US administration has made a political decision to radically reconsider the scope and priorities of the United States’ international assistance programmes, in particular the activities of USAID. What consequences can this policy have for processes in our region? These and a number of other events of the past week were discussed by Arsen Kharatyan and Farhad Mammadov in the second issue of the programme ‘Line of Contact – Events of the Week’ aired on Press Klub TV. The series of programmes under this rubric is prepared within the framework of the joint initiative of Yerevan and Baku Press Clubs.