Armenian Parliament Speaker during CSTO PA session raised issue of Azerbaijani provocations on border with Armenia and at the contact line with Artsakh
ArmInfo. "I regret very much that my first participation in the work of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was preceded by another Azerbaijani provocation on the state border with Armenia, as a result of which an Armenian soldier died," Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia Ara Babloyan said at the opening of the CSTO PA in St. Petersburg.
He stressed that on the days when exercises were held in Armenia with the collective forces of the CSTO rapid reaction, a 19-year-old serviceman of the Armed Forces of Armenia Chaplin Markaryan was killed by a bullet fired from Azerbaijan. Against this background, the NA President stressed that in this situation it is a challenge not only for Armenia, as a member of the CSTO.