RA Security Council Secretary expressed concern to CSTO Secretary  General about some of his formulations and assessments on  Armenian-Azerbaijani border situation

ArmInfo. During a telephone conversation with CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zasem, RA Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan expressed concern about some  formulations and assessments voiced on June 3 in the statement of the  Secretary General of the Organization.

As reported by the press service of the RA Security Council,  Grigoryan expressed confidence that the current situation cannot be  regarded as an incident, since the Azerbaijani servicemen have not  left the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia for a long  time. Considering that the actions of the Azerbaijani side are an  obvious attempt to occupy a part of the sovereign territory of the  Republic of Armenia, Armen Grigoryan once again stressed the need for  restraint in matters of wording at the level of the CSTO Secretariat  in order to prevent torpedoing constructive efforts to resolve the  situation.

At the end of the conversation, Armen Grigoryan emphasized that it is  expedient to organize a visit of the CSTO Secretariat to familiarize  themselves on the spot with the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani  border.

In turn, the CSTO Secretary General congratulated Armen Grigoryan on  the organization and holding of successful early parliamentary  elections on June 20 in Armenia.

To recall, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas in an interview with  journalists at the end of last week said that the aggravation of the  situation in the south of Armenia in connection with the  establishment of a new border with Azerbaijan is a "border incident"  and does not fall under the provisions of the CSTO charter on  collective defense. "You have to understand that the CSTO potential  is used only in the event of an aggression, an attack [on one of the  member countries]. Here we are dealing, in fact, with a border  incident. Thank God, there are no casualties, there are no shooting  there. This is a border incident, it must be solved, and we are in  favor of solving it peacefully, "he said.

According to him, there is no escalation of the conflict. "In  principle, we can say that the situation is no tensioning. There is a  lot of work ahead on the border issue, the resolution of all these  controversial issues, but they need to be resolved for negotiating  table ", Zas pointed out.