{"id":279281,"date":"2026-07-01T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=279281"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:05:53","slug":"european-commission-spokesperson-explains-purpose-of-von-der-leyens-visit-to-yerevan-and-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/279281\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission spokesperson explains purpose of von der Leyen&#8217;s visit to Yerevan and Baku"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen&rsquo;s visit to the South Caucasus should be viewed in the context of the European Union&rsquo;s efforts to support the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan and promote regional connectivity, European Commission spokesperson Paula Pinho said during a briefing in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question about von der Leyen&rsquo;s visit, Pinho said that the European Commission president is scheduled to hold talks in Azerbaijan on Wednesday and in Armenia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen will be accompanied during the visit by European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pinho, the regional tour follows the signing of what she described as the &ldquo;historic&rdquo; peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and reflects the EU&rsquo;s commitment to promoting transport and energy connectivity across the region.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When I speak about connectivity, I am referring to energy and transport. This can play a crucial role in bringing people closer together and fostering integration,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen&rsquo;s visit to the South Caucasus should be viewed in the context of the European Union&rsquo;s efforts to support the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan and promote regional connectivity, European Commission spokesperson Paula Pinho said during a briefing in Brussels. Responding to a question about von der Leyen&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":279267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,95,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279282,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279281\/revisions\/279282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}