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The EU observers deployed to Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan do not share their reports either with the Armenian or the Azerbaijani authorities, Andrea Wiktorin, head of the EU Delegation in Yerevan, said on Monday, adding the civilian mission reports back to Brussels.

“But as the mission is accompanied by officers of the Ministry of Defense, the Armenian side is well aware of what they see,” she told a news conference.

Wiktorin said the EU observers were not in the border village of Sotk during the latest Azerbaijani attacks which left one Armenian soldier killed and several others wounded. They visited the area after the tensions eased, she added.

"So far with the latest incursion and hostilities they were not present on the ground… when the incursion happened. You have quite a long border and there is a schedule of the patrols. It is also not an intention that they had to be there while something happens. They are monitoring the border and they see what they see around the border, but it does not mean that they are actually on the spot when something happens," Wiktorin said.