Pashinyan rules out change in CSTO stance

PanARMENIAN.Net - It is not realistic to expect any change regarding Armenia’s return to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in comments to journalists.

“We need to look forward. Yes, everyone has their own truth regarding these issues, but I think we have already weighed everything sufficiently, reached certain conclusions, and shared them with each other in an atmosphere of respect,” Pashinyan said, according to Aysor.am .

During his April 1 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Pashinyan noted that Armenia had never concealed its position on the CSTO.

“In 2022, we had a specific situation. In my opinion, CSTO mechanisms should have been activated, but they were not. This, of course, led to the situation we now have in our relations with the CSTO.

We are currently not participating in CSTO activities for a simple reason: to this day, we have not been able to explain to our people, our citizens, why the CSTO did not respond, despite the obligations that exist under the Collective Security Treaty,” he said.