CSTO Secretariat looks with concern at dynamics of Armenian-Azerbaijani border developments
The Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has voiced concern around the situation at Armenian-Azerbaijani border. It reminds that on June 11 in Almaty, in the scope of the session of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers, Armenia’s FM Zohrab Mnatsakanyan briefed his collogues and the CSTO Secretary General on the movement of Azerbaijani forces at the Armenian border with Nakhijevan as well as their advance, intensive engineering works at the contact line.
“The CSTO Secretariat looks with concern at the dynamics of reports and developments
That dynamics should not bring a new level of escalation,” the statement posted on the organization’s official website reads.
“Affirming the importance of creating favorable conditions aimed at finding ways to solve the conflict in a peaceful way. The Secretariat reiterates the peaceful settlement of the NK conflict under the auspices of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs. The Minsk Group is the only internationally mandated format for the settlement which is affirmed in the 2017 statement of the CSTO Heads of States over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,” the statement concluded.