YEREVAN. – The accumulation of weapons in the Karabakh conflict zone cannot be a solution toward the settlement of the conflict, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha said during a news conference on Monday. 

And in response to the question as to whether CSTO is concerned by Azerbaijan’s buying of large quantities of weapons from other countries, Bordyuzha noted that purchasing weapons was Azerbaijan’s right.   

“It is Azerbaijan’s right to purchase any [military] equipment, just as every state has the right to arm its ‘power systems,’” CSTO Secretary General argued, but he added that the intensive accumulation of arms and ammunition in conflict zones cannot be the key for resolving the existing problems.