CSTO Head Discusses Karabakh With Armenian Defense, Foreign Ministers
12:54 03.04.2016(updated 12:58 03.04.2016)
Secretary General of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolay Bordyuzha, discussed the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandyan and Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan in a telephone call on Sunday, according to the organization's press secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A new wave of violence occurred on Sunday in the disputed region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, with both sides accusing each other of violating the ceasefire that has been in place since 1994.
"Today, during the new telephone conversation between the CSTO Secretary General and the heads of Armenian Foreign and Defense ministries, the dynamics of the situation in the zone of an armed conflict was discussed," Zaynetdinov told RIA Novosti.
The CSTO is an intergovernmental military alliance formed in 1992 with six members at present: Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Belarus, as well as two observer states – Afghanistan and Serbia.
The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh began in 1988, when the Armenian-dominated autonomous region sought to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, before proclaiming independence after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. In September 2015, the conflict escalated, with the sides blaming each other for violating the truce.
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