CSTO CHIEF SPEAKS ON AZERBAIJAN’S BELLIGERENT STATEMENTS

YEREVAN.” There is no military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh
problem.

Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General
Nikolay Bordyuzha stated the abovementioned during a press conference
in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan on Thursday, commenting on the query
about the bellicose statements that regularly come from Azerbaijan.

“I believe solely the peace talks and a mutual agreement will allow to
resolve this conflict; there are no other options for a resolution,”
Bordyuzha stressed.

In his words, the developments in the Caucasus come to prove yet
again that it is very easy to start a conflict, but, subsequently,
it is very difficult to bring everything back to its course.

“Unfortunately, we have lived this in the [19]90s. [But] I believe some
politicians have forgotten this bitter experience. I repeat once again:
There is only a peaceful solution to the [Nagorno-]Karabakh conflict,”
the CSTO chief noted.

He added that the CSTO oversees the climate concerning this conflict
and follows it very carefully.

“But the [OSCE] Minsk Group is engaged in the settlement [of the
conflict],” the organization’s secretary general recalled, adding
that he is against interfering with the existing format.

“The leaderships of the two countries [i.e., Armenia and Azerbaijan]
and the OSCE Minsk Group are engaged in the quest for a mutual
agreement,” Nikolay Bordyuzha concluded.