During the session of the coordinating council of chairmen of the committees on security and defense of the parliaments of member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) adjunct to the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, CSTO Deputy Secretary-General Valery Semerikov said the recent escalation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border requires the undertaking of urgent measures.

According to him, overall, the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone has become stable after the trilateral statement on ceasefire signed by the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan on November 9, 2020. “Russian peacekeepers and the ongoing negotiation process are helping strengthen the prospect for long-term peace,” Semerikov said, adding that the recent escalation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border requires the undertaking of urgent measures, that is, “solutions to political diplomacy issues and then issues related to the demarcation and delimitation of the state border between Armenia and Azerbaijan”.

The participants of the session were also introduced to the “Military Political Situation in the Caucasus” report by Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense and Security of the National Assembly of Armenia Andranik Kocharyan in which the latter assesses the situation in the areas of the Syunik Province of Armenia bordering Azerbaijan and underscores the inadmissibility of encroachments on the territorial integrity of a member state of the CSTO.