N. Bordyuzha: “Isolation is unacceptable”
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is calling on a peaceful resolution of all frozen conflicts, including the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
This is what CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha announced during an international conference in Yerevan, adding that that is the reason why the CSTO is against all programs and concrete attempts aimed at solving the conflicts through force.
"All conflicts must be solved based on the norms of international law. As far as the NK conflict is concerned, the CSTO has stated its principled approach several times in our organization's documents. We are in favor of its resolution, but only through peace. It is clear that the maintenance of a permanently tense state is irrational-a state in which there are nearly 50 deaths a year and large sums are spent on military needs and not the country's development and the people's welfare," announced the CSTO Secretary General.
Bordyuzha added that the active developments taking place in the South Caucasus don't allow anyone to shut an eye on them. "Our objective is to isolate the sharp, growing tension here. From the angle of Armenia's national security, the RA Defense Minister views this as a direct threat," said Nikolay Bordyuzha, adding that the aim of the CSTO is to ensure peaceful development in the region, prevent aggression between CSTO-member states and contribute to the normalization of relations between countries.
Bordyuzha mentioned that the CSTO has consistently been in favor of seeing the conflicting sides find solutions for the conflict resolution within the already existing mechanisms and focus on the fact that operations out of the format of negotiations are dangerous. "We are certain that the Minsk Group Co-Chairs' planned and persistent efforts and the Russian President's active mediation really contribute to the NK conflict resolution. Regardless of relations between states, the isolation of any country is unacceptable. It violates the equality of securit and states find themselves at different levels of security," announced Nikolay Bordyuzha.
