CSTO session clearly recorded fact of Azerbaijan’s incursion into Armenia’s sovereign territory - Pashinyan 

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 14, ARMENPRESS. The Russian Federation and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) are Armenia’s ally, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during the Q&A session in the Parliament.

He reminded the Article 4th of the CSTO fundamental document, which says: “If one of the Member States undergoes aggression (armed attack menacing to safety, stability, territorial integrity and sovereignty), it will be considered by the Member States as aggression (armed attack menacing to safety, stability, territorial integrity and sovereignty) to all the Member States of this Treaty. In case of aggression commission (armed attack menacing to safety, stability, territorial integrity and sovereignty) to any of the Member States, all the other Member States at request of this Member State shall immediately provide the latter with the necessary help, including military one, as well as provide support by the means at their disposal in accordance with the right to collective defense pursuant to article 51 of the UN Charter”.

“We have applied to the CSTO on this basis. Yesterday, a session was held, and according to my assessment as a chair in the organization, a process has been launched which must have its concrete solutions”, the PM said.

He informed that during that session clear assessments were made that the armed forces of Azerbaijan invaded into Armenia’s sovereign territory. “If such sentences are made in that format, that sentences should not be left without a consequence. A procedure has been launched, and we will do everything for that procedure to reach its logical outcome”, he said.

Pashinyan said that Armenia does not consider the military interference as the only possible scenario, as, he stated, that there are other tools and mechanisms of political, diplomatic influence.

“We have applied to the Russian Federation based on the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance also for getting a military assistance from Russia. We have also applied to our Western partners, with the support of whom the issue is now entering the UN Security Council to be discussed there”, he added.