'We'll take a strong stance on any forced displacement': EU's Borrell on Nagorno-Karabakh

On the Azerbaijani military offensive to retake the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh – populated by ethnic Armenians but internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan – Borrell says he has "strongly warned about any kind of forced displacement of persons or population, about any kind of [ethnic] cleansing. Certainly, if this happens, the European Union will have to take a strong stance. We have condemned the military action of Azerbaijan and we will condemn anything that could look like forced displacement of persons and any kind of activities against them based on ethnic reasons."

Borrell also addresses the tensions between Ukraine and Poland, in the wake of the Polish prime minister's statement that Poland is no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine, and that Poland will not accept being "destabilised" by grain imports.

"The European Commission is working and my colleagues from trade and agriculture are analysing the problem in order to see which market distortions are taking place and how we can solve it," the top EU diplomat explains. Borrell goes on: "But let's focus on the real issue. Which is that millions, tens of millions of grains are being blocked or, worse, destroyed. Russia is using hunger as a weapon. And we have to fight against it. The European Union has been looking for solutions. Maybe the solution created some local problems at a certain moment. But the big problem remains the big problem: the blockage of grains from Ukraine. This is the real issue the world has to look at."

We then turn to the Sahel region in Africa, where the EU has spent around €600 million on civilian and military missions over the last 10 years. Borrell has argued for a "re-evaluation" of the EU's strategy, in light of a