Markus Ritter: After receiving information about the buildup of Azerbaijani forces, the EUMA increased its patrols alongside the border in these areas

When there were these rumors and information about the
buildup of Azerbaijani forces, the EU Mission in Armenia increased its patrols
alongside the border in these areas, Armenpress writes.

“We regularly reported to Brussels what we were seeing. We
also made some tweets to calm down the situation to decrease the tensions, and
it looks that so far it worked,” Ritter said.

Ritter also referred to the opening of the EUMA Ijevan
operating base and noted that it will allow them to go and patrol day and night
alongside the border zones of the Tavush province.

“Today we opened a forward operating base in Ijevan to cover
the Tavush province with our patrols. Until today we covered this province from
Martuni,” he said.

Markus Ritter also noted that at the end of this week, they
will open the EUMA headquarters in Yeghegnadzor.

“From Friday we will have a unique headquarters there and
later we will open in Yeghegnadzor also a forward operating base that will
cover the Ararat region to the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhijevan,” Ritter
added.