On September 26, Edward Nalbandian, Foreign Minister of Armenia, the Chairman of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Council of Foreign Ministers, participated in the Foreign Ministers’ meeting of member states of the Collective Security in New York.

The ministers discussed the process of implementation of decisions made at the session of the Collective Security Council on September 2015, as well as issues of coordination of foreign policy of the CSTO member states. The members of the CSTO Foreign Ministers’ Council discussed the issues on the agenda of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly .

The participants exchanged views on the issues related to the global and regional security, the fight against terrorism, the situation in Central Asia and South Caucasus, as well as the processes in Syria and Iraq.

Edward Nalbandian briefed his counterparts on the recent provocations by Azerbaijan, the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone resulted by the gross violations of ceasefire and the measures implemented in that regard.

At the end of the meeting on behalf of Serzh Sargsyan, the President of the Collective Security Council, the President of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian handed to Vitaly Churkin, the Permanent representative of Russia to the UN, the diploma of the Collective Security Treaty Organization for his active role in strengthening the cooperation within the CSTO.