The CSTO Secretariat expresses serious concern over the aggravation of the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border that arose on July 12, this year, after an armed conflict between units of the armed forces of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, including the use of heavy armament, which resulted in the dead and the injured. The current situation does not contribute to the normalization of the situation on the border of the two neighboring states, one of which is the Republic of Armenia. The Republic is a member state of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The situation indicates a violation of the agreements of ceasefire reached at the leadership level of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
On July 9, 2020, the CSTO Secretariat hosted the first meeting of the Working Group on the Development of a Concept of Cooperation of the CSTO Member States on Countering Modern Combined Forms of Destructive Impact on the CSTO Member States. The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas took part in the meeting.
At the Permanent Council of the CSTO, the Russian side provided information on the violation by Ukraine of the rules of peaceful passage in the territorial sea of the Russian Federation
November 27th of this year. A meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held under the chairmanship of Aman Mambetseitov, Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kyrgyz Republic, in which Valery Semerikov, Acting Secretary General of the CSTO, took part.
The draft statements “On the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Context of the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540” and “On Measures to Increase Mutual Confidence aimed at achieving peace goals and maintaining a global security architecture” were reviewed, finalized and agreed. It was decided to send these documents in the prescribed manner for consideration in the format of permanent representatives of the CSTO member states at the UN and subsequent distribution.
The representative of Russia, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Andrei Shvedov, informed the CSTO Permanent Council about the situation in connection with the gross violation of the rules of peaceful passage in the territorial sea of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea on November 25, 2018.
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