On November 16, during the government hour in the Parliament, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that he hopes to reach an agreement within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on the withdrawal of Azerbaijani Armed Forces from Armenian territory.

Pashinyan called it a strange situation when all the international partners of Armenia, one way or another, consider it necessary to withdraw Azerbaijani forces from its territory, but not the CSTO, which has not yet given a clear political assessment of what happened.

"We hope that at the CSTO Collective Security Council meeting in Yerevan on November 23, we will be able to reach a consensus. Our goal is not to provoke a war between the CSTO and Azerbaijan. We want to understand what political position the CSTO takes in this situation," the Prime Minister added.

Earlier, on October 20, Caucasus Watch reported that at an extraordinary meeting, Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, stated that the Collective Security Council (CSC) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) would consider joint measures to assist Armenia. "Currently, the issue of holding an extraordinary session of the CSC CSTO shortly is being worked out. It is expected that during the upcoming meeting, the leaders of the member states will discuss the results of the work of the CSTO mission in Armenia via videoconference and should consider proposals for joint measures to assist Yerevan," the Russian Foreign Ministry noted.