Nikolai Bordyuzha proposed excluding Armenia from the CSTO.

ArmInfo. Armenia should be excluded from the Collective Security Treaty Organization because it does not participate in its work, but all decisions must be coordinated with it, former CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha told RIA Novosti.

"If they suspend participation but do not withdraw, they remain full members of the CSTO. If they are full members of the CSTO, then all decisions—and decisions in the CSTO are made by consensus—must be made taking their positions into account. And this position today, in essence, contradicts what is being done in the CSTO," Bordyuzha explained.

In his opinion, the proper course of action for Yerevan would be to withdraw from the CSTO completely, and if it does not do so, then expel Armenia from the CSTO altogether. "I would expel them." "They don't pay their dues and don't participate. Seriously, they should just leave if they're serious partners. But since they have an ambivalent position—that we won't leave, won't work, and don't participate, and don't want to—they should be expelled," Bordyuzha believes.

Earlier, CSTO Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov stated that the question of Armenia's expulsion could be raised at the CSTO Collective Security Council meeting in Moscow on November 11, 2026. He assessed that the republic is violating Articles 20 and 25 of the organization's Charter. The CSTO currently includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.

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 could not go without 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.