YEREVAN. – The statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and which the foreign ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member countries adopted Monday in Armenia, is in the interests of Yerevan.
Vice President of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, Eduard Sharmazanov, on Wednesday told the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am. He noted that, with this statement, the CSTO member states express their disagreement with the Azerbaijani policy.
“The Armenian side once again succeeded in reaching a shared position within the CSTO,” added Sharmazanov.
He also noted that the official view of the FMs of the CSTO member countries is as follows: the agreements, which were reached at the Vienna and St. Petersburg summits, need to be implemented.
In Sharmazanov’s words, some Turkic-speaking countries, including Turkey and Azerbaijan, are sparing no effort for a long time to engage Turkey in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, as a mediator. But the CSTO member countries have stated that their organization is against a change in the co-chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, and that it supports this co-chairmanship’s efforts to resolve the conflict.
“The CSTO member states are saying: ‘Turkey, you have no place in the Karabakh [conflict] settlement process,” he added.
Deputy speaker of the Armenian parliament also noted that, in the abovementioned statement, the CSTO member states clearly indicate that the precepts for resolving this conflict are equal, and fulfillment of the right to self-determination is inevitable.