The European External Action Service (EEAS) gave this assessment in a social media post on EU foreign and security policy chief Kaja Kallas’s talks with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan held in Brussels on Wednesday. It gave no details of the talks, saying only that they discussed “EU support to the Armenia-Azerbaijan normalization process.”
“The relationship with Armenia continues to deepen at an unprecedented pace,” the EEAS wrote on X.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry reported, for its part, that Kallas and Mirzoyan discussed “joint efforts to expand cooperation in specific areas.” It did not elaborate.
Neither statement made any mention of a recently passed Armenian law declaring the “start of a process of Armenia's accession to the European Union.” It is not clear whether the issue was on the agenda of Mirzoyan’s meeting with Kallas.
Visiting Yerevan earlier this week, Gert Jan Koopman, a senior official from the European Commission, praised the Armenian government for enacting the one-sentence law. The EU’s executive body has still not officially welcomed it, however. Nor has any EU member state voiced support for Armenia’s eventual membership in the bloc.
Armenian officials have stressed that the law criticized by Russia does not amount to an EU membership bid. They have still not clarified what concrete steps stemming from it Yerevan is planning to take next. Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safarian told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service late last week that no such steps have been taken so far.