YEREVAN. – The session of the Security Council Secretaries’ Committee of states in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) was convened Wednesday in Yerevan, the capital city of the Republic of Armenia (RA), reported 168 Zham newspaper.

“Again statements were made, which (…) especially after the four-day war in April [and which Azerbaijan had unleashed against Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh)], contain sarcasm, to say the least, toward Armenia.

“In particular, CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha, speaking about the arms of Armenia’s army, stated that ‘Armenia can modernize its armed forces by acquiring weapons at preferential prices in the CSTO countries.’

“But Bordyuzha, naturally, does not reflect on the matter that this possibility is only on paper. He does not explain why Russia, which sells weapons to Azerbaijan with the accuracy of a clock for about a year, does not supply these arms to Armenia.

“And, when after all that, the CSTO secretary [general] states that ‘there are many ways to work’ for the modernization of Armenia’s armed forces, one can only assume that he means support to Azerbaijan’s acts of sabotage, which, naturally, increase the combat-readiness of the RA Armed Forces, thus contributing also to their modernization,” wrote 168 Zham.