The Armenian Minister of Defense will not attend the next meeting of the CSTO Council of Heads of Defense Ministries. Press Secretary of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia Aram Torosyan said this in an interview with Radio Liberty (the organization is included in the list of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice).
According to Torosyan, the Head of the Armenian Ministry of Defense Suren Papikyan will not attend the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers meeting to be held in Minsk on November 22.
Formerly Secretary General of CSTO Imangali Tasmagambetov statedIt was stated that Armenia wanted the document regarding aid to the republic to be removed from the summit agenda of the organization.
On November 22, Minsk will host meetings of the committee of secretaries of the defense ministers, foreign affairs and security councils of the CSTO countries. The CSTO summit will take place on November 23.
November 15, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan statedHe said that he would not announce a change in the republic’s policy and that he had not decided to leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
14 November Armenian Prime Minister’s press conference reportedHe said that Pashinyan warned Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that he would not come to the CSTO summit. At the same time, the Armenian prime minister expressed hope that CSTO partners would understand his decision.
Previously in the USA spoke For the reform of the UN Security Council.