CSTO not eager to re-accept AzerbaijanAugust 25, 2010 - 11:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - After the 2008 war, no one expects NATO to extend toward South Caucasus, an Armenian expert said. “Even Georgia has lost hope to join the Alliance,” Sergey Minasyan, head of scientific research of Caucasus Institute, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. “As to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Azerbaijan had been a member till 1999. I don’t think the organization is eager to re-accept this country Earlier, head of the public and political department at the Azerbaijani presidential administration Ali Hasanov said that Azerbaijan is not going to join either NATO or CSTO ‘until these organizations condemn Armenia’. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |