Armenia has not rejected the deployment of a CSTO mission on the border with Azerbaijan, Armenian Ambassador to Russia Vagharshak Harutyunyan said in an interview with TASS.

“No one has rejected CSTO observers,” he said.

Harutyunyan also denied statements by some Armenian political scientists and opposition figures that the government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is preparing the country's withdrawal from the CSTO.

“Such opinions are not true. Our Prime Minister noted that there can be no talk of withdrawing from the CSTO, so this is not true. Quite the contrary, we are deepening our relations and in this unstable period, our relations are deepening and will deepen,” the envoy said.

“Armenia is a member of the EAEU, a member of the CSTO, a member of the CIS and other regional organizations where Russia is also present. Therefore, all this can be perceived as statements of people who do not understand our relationship.”