ArmInfo.Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Stanislav Zas pointed to the stabilization of the situation in the Caucasus region of the responsibility of the CSTO.
Thus, the CSTO Secretary General, during his speech at the "Collective Security in a New Era: Experience and Prospects of the CSTO" conference, organized by the Valdai Discussion Club with the support of the Russian Foreign Ministry, referring to the situation in the Caucasus region of the organization's responsibility, stated that after the signing of the tripartite statement of the leaders Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan dated November 9, 2020 and the entry of Russian peacekeepers into Nagorno-Karabakh, the situation has stabilized, the bloodshed has stopped.
"Of course, there are hotbeds of tension there, and they are on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border . I was there, I saw with my own eyes what is happening there. You know, in fact, there is no border as such, there. There are line of contact, strongholds, observation posts. There are shootings from time to time. Of course, this should not be so," Zas said.
According to him, the parties now face a serious task of delimiting and demarcating the border. At the same time, the CSTO Secretary General added that this is a large and complex amount of work, but, nevertheless, this will allow to strengthen the security of the region. "There is cautious optimism that an entire era of war is ending and another era is beginning. I may be wrong in terms of such optimism, but we must now welcome the steps that are now being taken to establish peace," he concluded.