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  • Armenia counts on CSTO assistance if Karabakh hostilities resume

    Interfax, Russia
    Dec 21 2012


    Armenia counts on CSTO assistance if Karabakh hostilities resume - president

    MOSCOW. Dec 21


    Yerevan counts on the assistance of the Collective Security Treaty
    Organization (CSTO) in the case of a military solution to the Karabakh
    conflict, but still hopes a diplomatic solution can be found, Armenian
    President Serzh Sargsyan told the Rossiya-24 channel.

    "Certainly. It would have been strange if we had not counted (on the
    CSTO). Why would we join that organization otherwise? The countries
    joined the union to support each other at a difficult moment,"
    Sargsyan said.

    Azerbaijan is building up its military power, he said. "Azerbaijan
    hopes for a military solution. However, we think there is no
    alternative to negotiations. Because the only alternative is
    hostilities, and we do not want them to resume under any
    circumstances," the Armenian leader said.

    Armenia is the guarantor of security for the Karabakh people, he said.
    "If the gamble, which has started, develops into military operations,
    Armenia will do the utmost to protect people in Karabakh," he added.

    Azerbaijan is not prepared to solve the Karabakh problem so far, Sargsyan said.

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