Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan held a phone conversation with the CSRO Secretary-General Stanislav Zas.

Grigoryan expressed concerns over some formulations and assessments in the July 3 statement of the CSTO Secretary-General. He expressed conviction that the existing situation cannot be called just an incident since it’s already a lasting time that the Azerbaijani servicemen do not withdraw from the sovereign territory of Armenia, which is an obvious attempt to occupy some of the Armenian territories.

At the end of the conversation Armen Grigoryan emphasized that for getting acquainted with the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on-site, it would be a good idea to organize the visit of the CSTO Secretariat. Grigoryan once again stressed that it is necessary to show restraint in the negotiations at the level of the CSTO Secretariat in order not to jeopardize the constructive efforts aimed at resolving the situation.

It should be reminded that on July 3 Stanislav Zas had said that it’s needed to understand that the CSTO potential is applied only in case of aggression, attack, and in the case of Armenia, it’s a matter of a border incident.

“Thank God, there are no casualties, no fires. This is a border incident, it must be solved, and we support the peaceful solution of the issue”, Zas had stated.