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Armenia’s Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan has addressed a letter to the SCS of Tajikistan Nasrullo Makhmudzoda who is also the president of the CSTO Committee of the Security Councils Secretaries presenting in it the facts of incursion of the subdivisions of the Azerbaijani armed forces into Armenia’s bordering regions.
Armen Grigoryan offered conduction of extraordinary session of the CSTO Committee of the Security Councils Secretaries.
The copy of the letter has been sent to CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas.
In Syunik the Armenian side has presented its demands at the negotiations, official from Armenia’s Ministry of Defense told Aysor.am.
“It has been told that we are not going to concede any meter of territory to the Azerbaijani side and they were demanded to withdraw to the starting positions,” the official said.
Armenia MOD says that currently the Azerbaijanis are waiting for the order from the superior.
Speaking at the Security Council session yesterday Armenia’s Acting PM Nikol Pashinyan stated that over 250 Azerbaijani soldiers are in some sectors of Armenia’s Syunik and Gegharkunik provinces.
He also instructed Armenia’s acting FM Ara Aivazian, acting defense minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan and Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan to launch process of discussions in the sidelines of the CSTO to eliminate the danger to Armenia and its territorial integrity.
Armenian, Russian security council chiefs discuss Azeri border breach | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency
12:40, 14 May, 2021
YEREVAN, MAY 14, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan and his Russian counterpart Nikolay Patrushev held a phone conversation to discuss the situation at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and discussed possible options for solving the issue, the Security Council of Armenia said in a news release.
Grigoryan presented the situation to Patrushev and stated that Armenia views this as an encroachment against its sovereign territory, and that this is unacceptable for Armenia, therefore the Azerbaijani military units must leave these territories and pull back.
Grigoryan also underscored that the Azerbaijani side’s aspirations are ungrounded, and there are maps back from Soviet times which substantiate that the said territories are Armenian.
Armenia s Pashinyan to contact CSTO over incidents on Azerbaijani border
He stressed that the Azerbaijani forces might have crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border not for addressing some local issues, but for triggering an armed conflict
YEREVAN, May 13. /TASS/. Armenia s acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has instructed the heads of the ministries concerned to enter into consultations with the Collective Security Treaty Organization in connection with the crossing of Armenia s border by Azerbaijani armed forces. I am asking acting Foreign Minister Ara Aivazyan, Defense Minister Vagarshak Arutyunyan and Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan to enter into consultations with the CSTO over the incidents in which the state border in some districts of Syunik and Gegharkunik was crossed by Azerbaijani forces, Pashinyan said at a meeting of Armenia s Security Council on Thursday.