ArmInfo.Azerbaijan should not join the CSTO ranks. The head of the parliamentary commission on foreign affairs, deputy chairman of the Republican Party Armen Ashotyan stated this from the rostrum of the Armenian parliament.
He also stressed that the new authorities of the country should insist on the implementation of the Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements on reducing tensions in the Karabakh conflict zone. "In addition, for some reason the authorities did not react to Baku's statement that after Pashinyan-Aliyev talks it becomes clear that the format of bilateral negotiations is the only correct one and it must continue its existence." Meanwhile, Pashinyan himself repeatedly stated that the Karabakh The talks should be held in a trilateral format with the involvement of Stepanakert.Why did Yerevan not respond to this statement to Baku yet? "Ashotyan asked.
In addition, he urged Prime Minister Pashinyan to take into account the "normalized" relations with the Azerbaijani leader Aliyev, decide the fate of the Armenian prisoners Karen Ghazaryan and Zaven Karapetyan and return them to their homeland.