EU Special Representative back in Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar has arrived in Armenia and will spend the next two days in Yerevan.

"As the international environment has become more tense, the [European Union] is more than ever committed to the goal of a peaceful and prosperous South Caucasus," Klaar said in a tweet on Monday, March 14.

The EU official's trip comes amid renewed tension on the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact and the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. The Azerbaijanis have been attempting to make Karabakh residents flee their villages in the past several weeks now. A civilian was injured when doing agricultural work after a shell exploded in his backyard, the Karabakh police said.

Klaar last visited Armenia a month earlier and met with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, deputy PM Mher Grigoryan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Defense Minister Suren Papikyan.