CSTO session in Moscow to discuss situation around downed Nagorno-Karabakh helicopter
28.11.2014,
18:16
A meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), scheduled to take place in December in the Russian capital Moscow, will discuss the situation around the combat helicopter of the Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces that was shot down on November 12 by Azerbaijani forces, Nikolay Bordyuzha, the secretary general of the CSTO, who has arrived in Yerevan today, told Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan.
YEREVAN, 28 November. / ARKA /. A meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), scheduled to take place in December in the Russian capital Moscow, will discuss the situation around the combat helicopter of the Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces that was shot down on November 12 by Azerbaijani forces, Nikolay Bordyuzha, the secretary general of the CSTO, who has arrived in Yerevan today, told Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan.
All the three pilots of the helicopter were killed. Azeri armed forces had been preventing Nagorno-Karabakh troops from approaching the crash site and removing the bodies of the pilots, who were on a training flight.
Their bodies as well as specific parts of the helicopter were removed from the crash site in a special military operation conducted by Karabakh commandoes ten days later.
Sargsyan’s press service said the president and Nikolay Bordyuzha spoke also about the upcoming meeting’s agenda.
Bordyuzha was said to have briefed Sargsyan on the current activity of the CSTO, including the development of its military component, security in the Caucasus region and some other issues.
The CSTO was established in 1992. It comprises former Soviet republics of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. In 2012 June Uzbekistan suspended its membership in the organization. -- 0-
