Moscow considers Yerevan`s decision not to send a military contingent  to the CSTO military exercises in Kazakhstan as its sovereign right-  Zakharova

ArmInfo. Moscow considers Yerevan's decision not to send a military contingent to the CSTO exercises in Kazakhstan as its sovereign right. Official  representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova,  announced this on September 29 at a briefing.

According to her, the Armenian authorities act on the basis of their  priority tasks.

"As for the decision taken by Yerevan not to send military  contingents to participate in the joint CSTO exercises in Kazakhstan,  I think that in this matter Armenia is acting on the basis of the  priority tasks that face it and its armed forces, taking into account  the current situation. This is its sovereign right " Zakharova said.

At the same time, she stressed that the unfounded criticism of the  CSTO voiced in Armenia by certain political figures does not benefit  the search for verified and mutually beneficial solutions. "There is  little sense in such destructive statements," said a spokeswoman for  the Russian Foreign Ministry. 

Moscow is for close adherence to all the trilateral agreements (signed between  Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) to settle the long-standing conflict,  Maria Zakharova, Spokesperson for Russia's foreign office stated on  Thursday as she commented on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan's proposal on the deployment of an international observer  mission along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border after the latest  escalation.

The documents were agreed on not only by the conflicting parties and  the mediator, but also by the nations involved in the long-standing  conflict in one way or another.

"And they are a real, not an imaginary, roadmap. Many politicians and  public figures in different states, especially in Armenia and  Azerbaijan, are seeking to replace the agreements with their own  ideas. They are promising much. They are good at that. The truth is,  however, that they have not done much over the years.  No results.  Our agreements have not remained on paper. They are being implemented  step by step. Not always as we want them to, but they are working.  Something imaginary must not be substituted for what is really  working. This is a general rule," Zakharova said.