On May 17, the acting Minister of Defence of the Republic of Armenia Vagharshak Harutyunyan had a telephone conversation with the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Stanislav Zas.

Vagharshak Harutyunyan presented the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, noting that despite the fact that according to the agreement reached, several groups of Azerbaijani servicemen returned to their starting positions in previous days and today, some of them are still in the territory of the Republic of Armenia, and, in fact, the problem created by the Azeri provocation has not been solved.

The Armenian Defence Minister noted that taking into account the fact that the Azerbaijani military is under the full control of the Armenian subdivisions, as well as the fact that large forces are accumulated on both sides of the border, the consequences may be unpredictable if the situation is not resolved quickly.

In his turn, Stanislav Zas noted that the CSTO is closely following the development of events, and that it will be discussed in the coming days at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the CSTO member states, which will be held in Dushanbe.