Armenia absent from RF State Duma speaker`s meeting with heads of  CSTO PA delegations in Moscow

ArmInfo. Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin held a meeting with his colleagues-the heads of delegations from the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly member  countries. Representatives from Armenia did not participate. The  meeting took place ahead of the meeting of the Council of the  Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization  (CSTO PA).

 According to the press service of the Russian State Duma,  the meeting with Volodin included Igor Sergeenko, Chairman of the  House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus; Yerlan  Koshanov, Chairman of the Majilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan;  Marlen Mamataliev, Chairman of the Zhogorku Kenesh of Kyrgyzstan; and  Faizali Idizoda, Chairman of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of the Majlisi  Oli of Tajikistan.

The meeting discussed preparations for the upcoming meeting of the  CSTO PA Council, which will be held in Moscow on April 20. The agenda  included issues of harmonizing the legislation of the Organization's  member states and countering challenges and threats in the CSTO's  area of responsibility, as well as a draft statement by the Assembly  Council on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its founding.

As a reminder, Armenia has been boycotting CSTO events since the end  of 2022. In February 2024, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  declared that Armenia had effectively frozen its participation in the  CSTO, as the organization had failed to fulfill its obligations to  Armenia, which would inevitably have consequences. And on September  18, 2024, at the Second World Armenian Summit, Pashinyan declared  that the CSTO posed threats to Armenia's security, its continued  existence, sovereignty, and statehood.