At the meeting, which was attended by the leaders of six member countries of the organization, the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan was discussed.

CSTO Secretary General

Stanislav Zas

gave a report on the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border prepared by the CSTO mission sent to Armenia on September 15.

In the report, the events of September 13 are presented as an escalation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, without mentioning which side started the hostilities.

In a message to the government of Armenia, it is said that the report of the Secretary General of the CSTO largely revealed the existing realities, in particular, the fact of the invasion of Azerbaijani units on the sovereign territory of Armenia and the danger of its repetition, as well as the need for the Azerbaijani forces to return to their original positions.

According to the website of the Armenian government, Armenian Prime Minister

Nikol Pashinyan

spoke about Armenia's expectations from the CSTO: "There are clear expectations that, firstly, the CSTO will give a certain political assessment of the incident and, secondly, adopt a road map for the restoration of territorial integrity of Armenia".

Alexander Lukashenko

sharply reacted to this statement during the meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council to the words of the Armenian Prime Minister .

"You don't know our position?

We want the conflict between the two neighboring states to be settled peacefully," Lukashenko said.

He also commented on the second question raised by Pashinyan: "What road map?

I will answer you immediately: sit down with Ilham Aliyev, if necessary, ask the President of Russia and make a decision.

Don't take it today - it will be worse, you yourself understand.

We don't need this conflict.

You asked two questions, they are more than strange, Nikol Vavaevich."

Lukashenko also spoke about the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh: "Guys, what are you fighting for?

What are you fighting for in these mountains

2 thousand kilometers high?

They lost three hundred people, three hundred people died - where people do not live, where even goats do not walk.

What are you fighting for?

Sit down, you two, come to an agreement, and let Russia sanctify this agreement.

But you don't want to.

There's some kind of game here."

As "Nasha Niva" points out, for Armenia, the whole point of being in the CSTO and other post-Soviet integration structures united around Russia is solely to hope that Russia, together with other members of the CSTO, will, if anything, help and protect it in the event of an escalation of the conflict with Azerbaijan for Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been going on for more than 30 years.

And if Russia openly denies this help - and Lukashenka clearly expresses not only his own position - then we can expect a geopolitical reorientation from the Armenian leadership, the publication notes.