YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 9, ARMENPRESS.  Armenia expects the Minsk Group Co-chairs, as well as CSTO to make addressed assessments to Azerbaijani-led ceasefire violations. Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan told about this at the YSU in a meeting with students and professors, answering the question what are Armenia’s expectations from the CSTO when the adversary regularly violates the ceasefire regime.

“First and foremost, we expect all the international norms to be complied with, and the ceasefire violator should get an assessment it deserves. One of the best options for that is the establishment of trust mechanisms, which can be brought into life by installing mechanisms for international investigation of incidents”, the Minister stated.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance that was signed on 15 May 1992. In 1992, six post-Soviet states belonging to the Commonwealth of Independent States—Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan—signed the Collective Security Treaty. Three other post-Soviet states—Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Georgia—signed the next year and the treaty took effect in 1994. Five years later, six of the nine—all but Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Uzbekistan—agreed to renew the treaty for five more years. Uzbekistan rejoined the CSTO in 2006 but withdrew in 2012.