V. Putin: CSTO could not intervene in the conflict over  Nagorno-Karabakh

ArmInfo. The CSTO could not intervene in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. This was stated by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in an  interview on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.

According to him, no one encroached upon Armenia. "The CSTO Treaty -  on Collective Security - provides for mutual assistance in the event  of aggression against the territory of a member state of this Treaty.   Nobody encroached on the territory of the Armenian Republic," Putin  said, adding that this did not give any right to take direct part in  these military operations. actions. The President noted that the  leadership of Armenia has repeatedly expressed gratitude to Russia  for fulfilling its obligations during the aggravation of the  situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.

At present, as the President of the Russian Federation noted, there  is a sufficient number of Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh, and if  something needs to be changed, this can be done only by agreement of  the parties. The President announced that the Russian peacekeepers  will receive additional payments due.  "We have a regulatory  framework, regulated in presidential decrees that were adopted  earlier. Servicemen who carry out a peacekeeping mission receive  additional payments, not military ones, but precisely for the  performance of their peacekeeping functions abroad," the President  said, answering the relevant question ...  "I still think I managed  to convince both our Turkish partners and our colleagues in  Azerbaijan that it is not necessary to create conditions that, or  preconditions for the destruction of our agreements. Such conditions  that would provoke one of the contracting parties to any then extreme  measures and extreme actions, "- said Putin, explaining that he  means" a very heavy legacy of the past and that associated with the  tragic bloody events of the First World War "and genocide. "This is a  factor that can be recognized, it can not be recognized. Someone  recognizes. Someone in the world does not. But there are no problems  for Russia. We have long recognized this. But why provoke the  Armenian side by the presence of Turkish soldiers on the line It  seems to me that President Erdogan understood and understood this  perfectly well. We did not have any problems here, "the Russian  president said.

He believes that it is difficult to accuse Turkey of violating  international law in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, although tastes  may vary. "You can give any assessment to Turkey's actions, but it's  hard to accuse Turkey of violating international law," Putin said.