MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. Tensions stemming from years of disputes are ongoing between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus, General Secretary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Imangali Tasmagambetov said on Friday.
"Tensions that stem from the long years of disputes between Armenia and Azerbaijan remain in the Caucasus," the CSTO chief told an expanded meeting of the leaders of the organization’s Secretariat and United Staff.
On Thursday, Azerbaijan’s top brass said that the republic’s forces had taken control of heights and areas in the Lachin District near the border with Armenia ahead of the commissioning of a new motor road that would connect Karabakh to Armenia.
The situation around Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on September 27, 2020. On the night of November 9, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on the full cessation of hostilities. The sides stopped at their positions at that moment, a number of districts went under Baku’s control, and Russian peacekeepers were deployed at the contact line and at the so-called Lachin corridor.