Foreign Minister, CSTO Secretary General talk situation in Karabakh

October 5, 2015 - 14:10 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met Sunday, October 4, with Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolai Bordyuzha.

At the meeting the parties discuss a number of issues, including the situation on the contact line between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan and the latter's ceasefire violations.

The parties discussed the process of implementation of decisions, made at a CSTO summit in Dushanbe, as well as issues concerning Armenia's chairmanship of the Organization

Also, Nalbandian and Bordyuzha gave high assessment to Indestructible Brotherhood 2015 military exercise of CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces.

Peacekeeping exercises Indestructible Brotherhood-2015 were held on September 30-October 4 in Armenia to improve the operational and combat training of forces and means of the collective security system.

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out as result of the ethnic cleansing launched by the Azeri authorities in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from 1991 (when the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed) to 1994 (when a ceasefire was sealed by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan). Most of Nagorno Karabakh and a security zone consisting of 7 regions are now under control of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.