CSTO HAS NO LEGAL RIGHT TO INTERVENE IN SITUATION AROUND NAGORNO-KARABAKH
Trend
Feb 21 2012
Azerbaijan
Speculation around the issue of unconditional protection of Armenia
by the Organization of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
in all possible scenarios of developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh
should cause at least surprise.
Armenia will receive all necessary assistance in case of aggravation
of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Secretary General of the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha said today.
“Armenia is a full CSTO member. It is obliged to present its
capabilities to ensure the collective security of another country
and has the right to receive the same support from its allies,”
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General
Nikolai Bordyuzha said today at a news conference in RIA Novosti.
However, the error, which is repeated from year to year by Mr
Bordyuzha, speaking about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can hardly
account for his ignorance.
By law, according to the right to collective defense in accordance
with Article 51 of the UN Charter, the CSTO has the right to provide
the State party with the necessary assistance, including military,
in the case of an act of aggression against the state party itself,
in this case – Armenia. But what does the Nagorno-Karabakh have to
do with this?
Military scenario over Nagorno-Karabakh does not envisage and will
never envisage the attack of Azerbaijan on Armenia. Is there at least
one state in the world today, which doubts that Nagorno Karabakh is
not Armenia, but the territory, which de jure belongs to Azerbaijan?
They can not be interpret this fact to please their own interests,
since there is no country in the world that would recognize
independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and cast doubt on the territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan.
If we look at the situation impartially, Yerevan should understand that
despite loud statements of the Secretary General of the CSTO, Armenia’s
membership in the Organization of Collective Security Treaty does not
guarantee that the members will come to the rescue of Yerevan in the
case of a military invasion of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh.
Legally, the CSTO has no right to do it, because the Nagorno-Karabakh
is a part of Azerbaijan and in no way relates to any of the CSTO member
states, and Baku is not going to declare the war to a member of the
CSTO – Armenia, for which the rest of the organization’s members
could stand up.
By the way, even commitments taken by Armenia to protect
Nagorno-Karabakh to the present day have no international recognition.
The CSTO has repeatedly rejected the assumption of its participation
in peacekeeping operation in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
stressing that the Nagorno-Karabakh is the territory of Azerbaijan.
“Azerbaijan is not a member to the Collective Security Treaty
Organization, and we can not without its consent to enter our units
on its territory. Our charter clearly says that without the consent
of the country that is not a member of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization, our structure has no right to carry out any military
operations on its territory,” the CSTO press-service said in July,
2009. Nothing has changed since then, Nagorno-Karabakh is still part
of Azerbaijan.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
