After a serious escalation of tension and military clashes in clear violation of the fragile Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire in place, the head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolay Bordyuzha, expressed concern that a full-scale Armenian-Azerbaijani war would destabilize “the whole Caucasus.”
The CSTO Secretary-General added that “we look with a great deal of alarm at what is happening now in the Caucasus, especially with regard to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict…..(and) “at the fact that heavy weapons, tanks are already being used there and there are casualties.”
“I think that the political resources of our states should be used to prevent any destabilization of the situation, so that this already hot conflict does not degenerate into large-scale hostilities. Today that is a very frightening prospect because the whole Caucasus would explode” in the event of war.
See the comments of RSC Director Richard Giragosian to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Armenian Service on the statement: