ArmInfo.Azerbaijan pursues a balanced foreign policy.Thus, the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, responded to the question of whether Baku currently holds talks with the CSTO member countries on joining the organization .
"As we have repeatedly noted, Azerbaijan pursues a balanced foreign policy. In this vein, we are developing an active bilateral dialogue and mutually beneficial equal cooperation with all the CSTO member states, of course, except Armenia, which continues to carry out military aggression against Azerbaijan, to occupy internationally recognized territories of our country, where it conducted bloody and total ethnic cleansing of the Azerbaijani population, "Mammadyarov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.