Pashinyan said that Armenia will leave the CSTO Anastasia Kushpit
Irmenia plans to leave the CSTO/Getty Images< p _ngcontent-sc141 class="news-annotation">Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that his country will leave the CSTO. He also emphasized that once this decision is made, there will be no turning back.
Pashinyan announced that Armenia was preparing to leave the CSTO during a speech at the National Assembly on June 12. However, he did not specify when exactly this would happen.
Pashinyan announced plans to leave the CSTO
When asked about the possibility of leaving the CSTO, Pashinyan called the organization a “bubble alliance.” He said that some of its members did not fulfill treaty obligations and even planned a war together with Azerbaijan. “We will come out, we will make a decision,” said the Armenian prime minister.
The culprits were those who created the mikhur alliance, whose participants, as it turned out, they did not fulfill their contractual obligations, but went and planned a war against us and Azerbaijan,” Pashinyan said in the National Assembly.
He also noted that Yerevan does not intend to return in the CSTO.
What do you think? What is the next step? Do you think we will go back? No, there is no other way. Don’t worry, we won’t go back,” he said.
What preceded
- After Russia failed to prevent Armenia from losing Nagorno-Karabakh, the country suspended its membership in the organization.
- In May of this year, the Prime Minister of Armenia accused two CSTO countries of supporting Azerbaijan during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. He did not name these states, but stated that they helped prepare the war against Armenia.
< li>In February 2024, Pashinyan said that Armenia had “frozen” its membership in the CSTO. In the spring, the country suspended funding for the organization. Russia did not like this very much – the aggressor country stated that the Armenians have financial obligations to the CSTO.
