Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec.13 / Trend V. Zhavoronkova /
Intervention of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in the conflicts in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will only aggravate them, an independent Uzbek political analyst Sergei Yezhkov believes.
"There are too many contradictions inside the countries [CIS], and any intervention by the CSTO in the resolution of conflicts in this territory will contribute to the escalation of conflicts," Yezhkov told Trend over telephone from Tashkent.
Uzbekistan urges CSTO member states to approach to the use of collective forces to suppress violence inside the organization's member countries with caution.
"The purpose of the CSTO is first and foremost, the protection of member countries of the Organization from an external threat rather than participating in solving the various confrontations and clashes between the CSTO member states and the countries in the CIS space", Uzbek President Islam Karimov said on Friday the at the Summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Moscow.
The expert believes that this attitude of the Uzbek leader is "fully reasonable and logical."
"It seems that the Uzbek President clearly understands the necessity to consolidate the political forces of post-Soviet space just for ensuring security from external threats," Yezhkov said.
According to the expert, any military intervention of "comrades in arms" in the military conflicts in the territory of the CIS has a negative impact. All conflicts, both present, and frozen conflicts should be understood under the conflicts on the territory of the Commonwealth, Yezhkov said.
One of the frozen conflicts in the CIS is the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
Yezhkov believes that Uzbekistan is least of all interested in sending its militaries to resolve any inter-ethnic or interethnic conflicts.
CSTO is the military-political alliance of seven countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In February 2009, the CSTO countries coordinated and signed a draft decision on the establishment of Rapid Reaction Force (RRF). RRF will be used for "repelling military aggression, holding special operations to combat international terrorism, transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, as well as consequences of emergency cases."