The CSTO agrees to send to Armenia a delegation headed by the secretary general of the organization

Sep. 13 () –

The member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have agreed to send a mission to Armenia headed by the organization’s secretary general, Stanislav Zas, after the upsurge in hostilities on the border with Azerbaijan.

The Council of the CSTO – a group led by Russia together with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan – held an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday after the clashes registered on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in which they have already died near of a hundred soldiers between both sides.

As detailed by the OTSC in a statement, collected by the Russian agency TASS, the delegation sent to Armenia will have the mission of “assessing the current situation (…) on the situation in the region and the development of proposals to de-escalate the tension that has been generated”.

In addition, at the Council meeting, a commitment was made to promote a working group made up of both employees of the General Secretariat and military personnel “for constant monitoring of the situation in the CSTO’s area of ​​responsibility.”

In this context, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has also reported on the practical steps that Moscow is willing to take to reduce tensions between Armenians and Azeris.

“The mediation efforts of the Russian Federation aimed at stabilizing the situation in the region were fully supported,” the CSTO General Secretariat has settled.

Tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan have intensified this Tuesday after a new confrontation on the border that has resulted in the death of 49 Armenian soldiers and another 50 Azeris, according to the authorities of each country.

Armenia and Azerbaijan staged a confrontation in 2020 to take control of Nagorno Karabakh, a territory with a majority Armenian population that has been a focus of conflict since it decided to separate in 1988 from the Azerbaijan region integrated into the Soviet Union.

Hostilities between the two countries lasted for six weeks and left thousands dead. They finally ceased when the two countries reached a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement, allowing Russian peacekeepers to settle in Nagorno-Karabakh for a period of five years.