Armenia will not ask CSTO to deploy military contingent on its territory because of tension on border with Azerbaijan

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11.02.2022, 10:07

The Armenian government controls the situation on the border with Azerbaijan and will not seek help from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Gurgen Arsenyan, a member of the Armenian National Assembly's committee on foreign relations, told Russian RIA Novosti news agency.

Armenia will not ask CSTO to deploy military contingent on its territory because of tension on border with Azerbaijan – MP

YEREVAN, February 11. /ARKA/. The Armenian government controls the situation on the border with Azerbaijan and will not seek help from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Gurgen Arsenyan, a member of the Armenian National Assembly's committee on foreign relations, told Russian RIA Novosti news agency.

Arsenyan participated Thursday in the first meeting of chairpersons of committees of CSTO member countries’ parliaments in Moscow. CSTO Secretary Stanislav Zas took part in the meeting.

"The situation in Armenia is complicated, but the authorities are keeping it under control," Arsenyan said. He added that Armenia will not ask CSTO to deploy a military contingent "because of border confrontations with Azerbaijan.’

"The threat that exists is a systemic threat. We are able to cope with it. The strength of Armenia's political leadership headed by Prime Minister Pashinyan lies in the fact that it prefers to regulate problems through negotiations rather than shooting," Arsenyan noted.

Groups of Azerbaijani troops illegally crossed the Armenian state border on May 12, 2021 and advanced about 3 km into Armenia’s sovereign territory in Gegharkunik and Syunik regions allegedly to "adjust the borders." Part of them pulled back later, but some are still in Armenian sovereign territory.

On May 27, 2021 Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan proposed that Armenian and Azerbaijani troops withdraw from the border areas to the places of their permanent deployment, suggesting that Russia deploy Russian border guards along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border - from Sotk (Gegharkunik) to Khoznavar (Syunik). After that, according to his plan, it will be possible to begin the delimitation and demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

Yerevan demands that the international community respond to the aggressive policy of Azerbaijan, which is directed against Armenia's sovereignty, territorial integrity and regional security. -0-