‘We’ll take a strong stance on any forced displacement’: EU’s Borrell on Nagorno-Karabakh
30 September 2023 |
4:11 pm
Josep Borrell, the EU's high representative for foreign and security policy, speaks to Talking Europe from New York, where he is attending the annual United Nations General Assembly. We discuss the big issues facing the EU in the world: Ukrainian grain exports and food security; the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia; the EU's strategy in the Sahel, and migration.
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