Moscow should stop linking Russia-Armenia relations to Azerbaijan, Baku's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aykhan Hajizada has said, after Russia again raised the Collective Security Treaty Organisation's role during the former Garabagh conflict.
It comes after Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Monday discussed whether the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) could have intervened in the former Garabagh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Hajizada criticised Moscow for continuing to raise the issue of CSTO mechanisms, describing it as a distortion of reality.
"Attempts to continuously keep on the agenda the issue of applying CSTO mechanisms to the sovereign territories of Azerbaijan, which had been under Armenia's occupation for nearly 30 years, and to associate this with whether or not the Garabagh region had been recognised by Armenia, are not only entirely groundless but also contradict Russia's own official position regarding Azerbaijan's Garabagh region," he said.
The international community, including Russia, recognises Garabagh as an integral part of Azerbaijan.
Hajizada added that Azerbaijan had restored its territorial integrity and sovereignty in accordance with international law, thereby resolving the former conflict.
"In this context, the practice of commenting on issues pertaining to Russia-Armenia relations by associating it with Azerbaijan should be ended," he said.
Zakharova made the remarks at the Gvardeysk Youth Forum in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave on Monday.
"It is well known that Armenia recognised neither Garabagh as its own territory nor as an independent entity. Under such circumstances, it was impossible to use the CSTO's collective security mechanism," she said.
The active members of the CSTO military alliance are Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
Armenia remains a member, but Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced in 2024 that the country had frozen its participation in the alliance.
The CSTO's Secretary General, Taalatbek Masadykov, said in June that Armenia "de facto" does not participate in the CSTO.
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