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On October 16 in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO PA) the Head of the RA National Assembly, the RA NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov had a meeting with the CSTO PA Executive Secretary Pyotr Ryabukhin in the RA NA Representation of Tavrichesky Palace of Saint Petersburg. The Representative of the RA National Assembly to the IPA CIS Hayk Chilingaryan also attended the meeting.

The NA Deputy Speaker has noted that Armenia, as in the CSTO Chairing Country, is ready to closely cooperate with his counterparts for the sake of providing the provisions of the treaty on Collective Security.

Touching upon the regional security problems, Eduard Sharmazanov has noted that Armenia is for exclusively the peaceful settlement of the NK conflict. The NA Deputy Speaker expressed his concern that last month, as a result of the ceasefire regime violation by Azerbaijan, tendency of the escalation tension was recorded along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and in the Karabakh-Azerbaijani line of contact.

The Head of the RA National Assembly to CSTO PA has recorded that the provoking policy of Azerbaijan can cause serious damage to the negotiating process. The NA Deputy Speaker highlighted the condemnation of Azerbaijan’s deconstructive position by the CSTO PA counterparts. The interlocutors considered inadmissible the conflict settlement by force.

At the end of the meeting Eduard Sharmazanov proposed to hold the joint meeting of the CSTO PA Council and the Defense Ministers of the CSTO member states in Yerevan.