Tuesday, May 25 2021 23:16

ArmInfo. The recent aggravation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border requires urgent measures. This was stated by the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov at the visiting session of the Coordination Meeting of the Chairmen  of the Committees (Commissions) on Defense and Security of the  Parliaments of the CSTO member states under the Council of the CSTO  Parliamentary Assembly.

According to the CSTO press service, he assessed the general  military-political situation in and around the CSTO area of  responsibility, and also informed about countering challenges and  threats to collective security, the state and prospects of military  cooperation within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty  Organization in the current stage.

Valery Semerikov noted that the United States and NATO are building  up their military groupings and military infrastructure in the  territories of the Eastern European countries and the Baltic States  in close proximity to the western borders of the CSTO member states.  "At the same time, they are also carrying out the dismantling of the  international arms control system," he stressed.

Referring to the situation in the Caucasian region of collective  security, the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO said that after  the adoption on November 9, 2020 of the trilateral Statement of the  President of Azerbaijan, the Prime Minister of Armenia and the  President of Russia on the cessation of hostilities in the zone of  the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the situation there has generally  stabilized. "The introduction of the Russian peacekeeping contingent  and the ongoing negotiation process are strengthening the prospect of  establishing a long-term peace," Valery Semerikov said. At the same  time, he noted that the recent aggravation on the  Armenian-Azerbaijani border requires the adoption of urgent measures,  "first of all, of a political and diplomatic nature, and the  resolution of issues on the demarcation and delimitation of the state  border between Armenia and Azerbaijan."

The meeting participants also heard the report of the Chairman of the  Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Armenia on Defense and  Security Affairs Andranik Kocharian "On the military-political  situation in the Caucasian region of the Collective Security Treaty  Organization", where he assessed the situation in the regions of the  Syunik region of Armenia bordering on Azerbaijan and noted the  inadmissibility of encroachments on the territorial integrity of the  CSTO member state.