Bordyuzha: Issue of CSTO chief will be thoroughly discussed in April

PanARMENIAN.Net - The issue of the new Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will be "thoroughly discussed" at the next session of the CSTO Council in April 2017, current CSTO chief Nikolay Bordyuzha said on Monday, December 26, according to RIA Novosti.

A number of CSTO officials have confirmed at various points that the new head of the organization will represent Armenia.

"We agreed to hold a regular meeting of the Collective Security Council in April to thoroughly address the issue of the new Secretary General," Bordyuzha told reporters after a CSTO summit in St. Petersburg.

"It wasn't considered today due to the absence of a quorum."

"As you know, one of the delegations of the member states of the organization didn't participate in the working meetings," Bordyuzha added, citing the absence from summit of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and a delegation from Minsk.

Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Belarusian side should comment on Lukashenko's absence.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance that was signed on May 15, 1992. Among the current members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.