The Secretary of the Armenian Security Council, Armen Grigoryan, held a telephone conversation with Stanislav Zas, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, today (11 February).
During the conversation they discussed the situation on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, with Grigoryan stressing that the border between the two countries had existed since the years of the Soviet Union. He noted that under the 1991 Agreement on the Establishment of Commonwealth of Independent States, both parties had recognised the border, and ratified that agreement in their parliaments.
The Armenian demarche was apparently in response to Zas’ comments earlier this week that “there is no border as such". In that statement Zas said that there "is a line of contact, bases, observation points. There are skirmishes from time to time"., adding that "it should not be like that”.