CSTO Secretary General hopes for peace in South Caucasus through  reconciliation between Yerevan and Baku

ArmInfo.The CSTO hopes that the settlement of Azerbaijani-Armenian relations will lead to a reliable and sustainable peace in the South Caucasus, as stated by Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov at a meeting of the organization's Parliamentary Assembly Council. 

"We remain attentive to the situation in the Caucasus collective  security region. The search for sustainable peace and stability  appears to be ongoing there. We are seeing encouraging trends aimed  at the signing a comprehensive interstate peace agreement between the  two countries. We believe that the settlement of Azerbaijani-Armenian  relations is a reliable path to sustainable peace and stability in  the South Caucasus," he noted, according to TASS.

Recall, Armenia has been boycotting CSTO events since late 2022. In  February 2024, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that  Armenia had effectively frozen its participation in the CSTO, as the  organization had failed to fulfill its obligations to Armenia, which  could not go without consequences. On September 18, 2024, at the  Second Armenian Global Summit, Pashinyan stated that the CSTO poses  threats to Armenia's security, its continued existence, sovereignty,  and statehood.