YEREVAN. – There is no military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem. 

Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha stated the abovementioned during a press conference in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan on Thursday, commenting on the query about the bellicose statements that regularly come from Azerbaijan.

“I believe solely the peace talks and a mutual agreement will allow to resolve this conflict; there are no other options for a resolution,” Bordyuzha stressed.   

In his words, the developments in the Caucasus come to prove yet again that it is very easy to start a conflict, but, subsequently, it is very difficult to bring everything back to its course.

“Unfortunately, we have lived this in the [19]90s. [But] I believe some politicians have forgotten this bitter experience. I repeat once again: There is only a peaceful solution to the [Nagorno-]Karabakh conflict,” the CSTO chief noted.    

He added that the CSTO oversees the climate concerning this conflict and follows it very carefully.   

“But the [OSCE] Minsk Group is engaged in the settlement [of the conflict],” the organization’s secretary general recalled, adding that he is against interfering with the existing format.

“The leaderships of the two countries [i.e., Armenia and Azerbaijan] and the OSCE Minsk Group are engaged in the quest for a mutual agreement,” Nikolay Bordyuzha concluded.