YEREVAN, APRIL 11, ARTSAKHPRESS. Armenia could consider the deployment of a CSTO mission to its territory only after the military bloc acknowledges that Azerbaijan committed an act of aggression against the sovereign territory of Armenia, a senior lawmaker said Tuesday.
The draft decision on sending the mission is still under development.
“This issue was discussed publicly on the high level most recently in March, when the Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan was in Moscow. I reiterate that this draft decision is still in the phase of development. The Armenian side insists that the draft decision must record the Azerbaijani aggression against the sovereign territory of Armenia, give a political assessment, and then only it will be possible to speak about the deployment of a mission and its parameters. The CSTO, as an organization, must record what has happened against the sovereign territory of Armenia, that is, an aggression has taken place against the sovereign territory of Armenia and Armenia’s territories are under occupation,” the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs MP Sargis Khandanyan told reporters.
Thus fur the Armenian side hasn’t seen such a record by the CSTO, and only after the organization acknowledges this fact it will be possible to speak about the rest, the MP said.
