YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN. NATO and CSTO should cooperate in case the Armenian-Turkish border is opened. CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha stated this at a press conference. He had participated in the round table initiated by CSTO in Yerevan. "NATO and CSTO member states have the same task - fighting terrorism and extremism, drugs, circulation of small-calibre arms and ammunition, their spreading, illegal migration, as well as necessity of not permitting destabilization of situation in various regions. The sooner we begin to combine our efforts and to cooperate the more efficiently we will be able to achieve our purposes," N. Bordyuzha emphasized. He mentioned that the Nagorno Karabakh settlement negotiations process has become active lately. "Only this year the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have met for six times. This efficiency of meetings is evidence that the two countries' leaderships are disposed to find mutually acceptable solutions to a very complicated problem," N. Bordyuzha said. In connection with Azeri President's bellicose statements N. Bordyuzha declared: "What can be my attitude to statements on a possibility of breaking out a war? Of course, negative. I am a former serviceman, I have often been at hot points, I have seen blood and I know what it will be like. I treat categorically negatively any statement on a possibility of solving political problems in a military way." He mentioned that he considers timely RF President's initiative, signing of a legally binding document by all sides to ensure European security. That initiative will exclude possibilities of giving any force solution to political problems.

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