YEREVAN, JUNE 8, ARMENPRESS. Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan delivered a speech on June 8 at the CSTO meeting of Security Council Secretaries.

Grigoryan spoke about the regional security challenges, emphasizing that Azerbaijan continues its policy of the use of force or threat of force and is attempting to derail the implementation of previously reached agreements. The Secretary of the Security Council said that Azerbaijan also continues to escalate the situation not only on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, but also in Nagorno Karabakh and Lachin Corridor.

Secretary Grigoryan said that the non-acknowledgment of the Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia’s sovereign territory and attempting to relate it with the non-implementation of the delimitation process of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is ungrounded.

Armen Grigoryan called on his colleagues to give an unambiguous and targeted assessment to the current situation in Nagorno Karabakh and take effective measures in order for the 120,000 Armenians living in Nagorno Karabakh not to be subjected to ethnic cleansings. He said that in this context creating an international mechanism ensuring the rights and security of the population in Nagorno Karabakh remains a priority for Armenia.