Tension persists at the contact line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, despite measures that are being taken, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Stanislav Zas said at the ninth meeting of CIS security council chiefs in Moscow on Wednesday, TASS reports.
The trilateral agreement reached by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia on November 9, 2020, made it possible to halt the bloodshed in Nagorno-Karabakh, he said.
“However, despite the steps that are being taken, tension still persists at the contact line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides,” Zas said.
Fighting erupted at the Azerbaijani-Armenian border between the armed forces of the two countries on November 16. In the wake of these hostilities, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu alternately held telephone talks with his counterparts from Armenia and Azerbaijan. As the press office of the Russian Defense Ministry reported, following these talks the defense ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia took measures to stabilize the situation at the border. These steps helped normalize the border situation.
