CSTO LEADER SLAMS AZERI LEADER’S WARNING OF POSSIBLE WAR
Interfax
Nov 24 2009
Russia
The general secretary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on
Tuesday slammed a statement by Azerbaijan’s president that a possible
failure of talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia on the Nagorno-Karabakh
issue might lead to a new war.
"I take an extremely negative attitude to this statement. I was in
the military myself and I know what war is, with all the blood, I know
what will happen," Nikolai Bordyuzha told a news conference in Yerevan.
Earlier, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said ahead of a meeting in
Munich with his Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sargsyan, that if the
meeting proved fruitless, war might break out in the region again.
"When I read Aliyev’s statement, I thought that the Russian president’s
initiative for signing a legally binding treaty on European security
is very timely, that we must have such a treaty, which would rule
out the possibility of military solutions to political problems,"
Bordyuzha said.
"I hope the aim of Aliyev’s statement was to stimulate reaching an
agreement with Armenia on Nagorno-Karabakh," he said.
Bordyuzha also said the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process had
intensified. "There have been six presidential meetings for the last
year and a half. This shows that the leaderships of Armenia and
Azerbaijan are seeking a solution to the conflict. The process is
there, and that is the main point," he said.