Head of Armenia Faction: "Bringing CSTO Into Region to Use Force May Cause Serious Conflict"

Seyran Ohanyan, the head of the Armenia faction of the Armenian Parliament, said that bringing the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) into the region to use force may cause a serious conflict.

"It is very bad that Armenia, presiding over the CSTO, was unable to agree on the document it wanted during the whole year of its presidency. There is an accepted tradition in the CSTO that the country that leads the structure and where at least the concluding summits are held, some documents favorable to that country are adopted. In this case, they were not accepted. It means that the leaders of Armenia are not taken into account," Ohanyan added.

Addressing the question of what the consequences would be if Azerbaijan were recognized as an aggressor by the proposed documents, the head of the Armenia faction answered: "The fact that Azerbaijan is an aggressor, as a result of aggression, it was able to occupy some parts of [the separatist] Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, is unequivocal. The fact that serious work should be done to condemn this is also unequivocal, but today also involving the CSTO in our region in matters of using force may cause a serious conflict in the future."

According to the opposition figure, the statements of the current authorities are contradictory: "On the one hand, they make concessions for peace; on the other hand, they say why the structure does not condemn Azerbaijan."

"And he [Nikol Pashinyan] is going to negotiations, what do we know, maybe to internal agreements? About 20 km in the Syunik sector were retreated by verbal instruction. Nothing was done in all the impounded places where Armenia should have taken serious measures to organize the defense," Ohanyan concluded.

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