Meeting with the newly appointed EU Special Representative (EUSR) for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Magdalena Grono on her visit to the region, RSC Director Richard Giragosian briefed her and her staff on 9 January in Yerevan. Giragosian presented an assessment of ongoing diplomatic negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, an analysis of Armenia-Turkey “normalization,” and a deeper look at Armenia’s “diversification” of its foreign policy, examining Armenian relations with Russia, the European Union and the United States.
As the new EUSR, Grono succeeds Toivo Klaar who completed a six-year tenure. She is officially empowered by the European Council to contribute to “the implementation of the EU foreign policy objectives in the region” and “the peaceful settlement of conflicts, including the crisis in Georgia and the normalisation process between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in close coordination with the UN and the OSCE.”
Magdalena Grono mostly recently served as Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and was a foreign policy adviser to former President of the European Council Donald Tusk. Previously, she was the Europe and Central Asia Director at the International Crisis Group (ICG).
As an independent think tank in Armenia, the RSC has provided analytical support and policy support to several previous EU Special Representatives, beginning in 2016 with then EUSR Peter Semneby.
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