The presidential minister recalled in a post on the X platform that during his visit to Armenia Polish the president met with the command and Polish staff of the Mission European Union in Armenia (EUMA), a civilian mission whose the goal is to help stabilize the situation in the territory of Armenia near the border with Azerbaijanem.
“Poland consistently supports peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. President Andrzej Duda he has paid visits in the last 3 weeks in both countries and talked to their leaders,” Pawlak emphasized.
He also noted that our country has played an important role in EUMA from the beginning. “Our officers and employees participate in it, the deputy commander of the Mission is a Polish diplomat Marek Kuberski. Meeting of the President of the Republic of Poland with the Mission during his visit to Armenia and its territory can't surprise anyone” – Pawlak noted.
Andrzej Duda's visit to Armenia. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons the Polish charge d'affaires
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan announced on Thursday that the ministry's headquarters in Baku He was summoned charge d'affaires of Poland that day in this country Michał Greczyło.
The message showed that in a conversation with a Polish diplomat A protest was expressed in connection with the visit of the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, to the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“During the meeting, a protest was expressed in connection with the visit of Polish President Andrzej Duda to the region on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan, near the town of Kerki, which is still under Armenian occupation. (Duda) took part in anti-Azerbaijani propaganda there together with the EU mission in Armenia, despite previous warnings from Azerbaijan,” information on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baku said.
President Andrzej Duda ended his three-day visit to Armenia on Wednesday. As he informed, the political talks he held during his visit to this country were devoted to, among others, development of Polish-Armenian cooperation and broadly understood issues security in the region.
In mid-November, Duda was in Azerbaijan. IN Baku participated in the COP29 climate conference. After the visit, he informed, among other things, that he talked with the president of this country, Ilham Aliyev, whom he invited to Poland. He also expressed hope that cooperation between the two countries would strengthen.
Conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues since both countries gained independence after the collapse of the USSR, i.e. from the beginning of the 1990s. This results, among others, from from the historical events and geographical distribution of the Armenian and Azerbaijani population.
After the final stages of the war in 2020 and 2023 Azerbaijan regained control over Nagorno-Karabakh – an isolated region located, under international law, on the territory of Azerbaijan, but inhabited until last year mainly by the Armenian population. Until the Azerbaijani offensive in 2023, there was an unrecognized republic supported by Armenia.
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