Wednesday, August 15 2018 13:25

ArmInfo.The representatives from Armenia proposed to make amendment in the charter of the Collective Security Treaty Organization according to which prime minister of the country will represent it in the organization's security council, Interfax reports siting the press service of the organization. 

According to the press service the initiative was voiced at the  session of the CSTO permanent council on August 14. "The draft  protocol on amendments to the Collective Security Treaty signed on  May 15, 1992 and the CSTO Charter from October 7, 2002 was also  discussed, which was proposed by the Armenian side in connection with  the coming into force of the amendments to the Constitution of the  Republic of Armenia. According to those amendments decisions on  issues considered by the Collective Security Council of the CSTO, are  within the competence of the Prime Minister of the Republic of  Armenia".

The source informs that the CSTO Permanent Council decided to send  draft documents in one package for interstate consideration. The  representative of Armenia Yuri Khachaturov is the incumbent CSTO  Secretary General. In July, he became a suspect in a criminal case  initiated by Armenian law enforcement agencies. The Special  Investigative Service of Armenia pressed charges against him in the  framework of the case on dispersal of the demonstration on March 1,  2008, when the participants of the protest against the results of the  presidential elections, won by Serzh Sargsyan, were dispersed. During  the dispersal, ten people were killed, more than 250 were injured. At  that time Khachaturov was the chief of the Yerevan garrison of the  Armenian Armed Forces. He was appointed Secretary General of the CSTO  in 2017 for three years. On July 28, the Yerevan Court of First  Instance decided to arrest Khachaturov. The Special Investigative  Service of Armenia allowed him to leave Armenia and return to work in  the Russian capital, obliging him to appear in the investigative body  if necessary.

Armenia proposed the CSTO member countries to launch the process of  replacement of the organization's Secretary General. Former president  of the country Robert Kocharyan was also arrested charged for  overthrowing the constitutional order in Armenia in 2008. However, he  has been released recently. The incumbent prime minister of Armenia  is Nikol Pashinyan.