The Armenian Foreign Minister commented on the statement by the former CSTO Secretary General.

ArmInfo. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan reiterated that Yerevan does not see itself returning to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

At a joint press conference with his Slovenian counterpart, Toni Kaiser, on October 28 in Yerevan, Mirzoyan, in response to a request to comment on former CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha's remarks about the need to expel Armenia from the organization, recalled that the country has not participated in the organization's work for a long time.

"We stopped participating in this structure long ago; our membership was frozen. If other members of this organization or the Secretariat make any statements—though I don't know to what extent the Secretariat has such authority in this matter—then it's in vain; we will not change our position." "And we don't see ourselves returning to the CSTO," the Armenian official said.

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. Currently, the CSTO includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.

As a reminder, Armenia has been boycotting CSTO events since late 2022. In February 2024, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated 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 already on September 18, 2024, at the second World Armenian Summit, Pashinyan stated that the CSTO creates threats to Armenia's security, its continued existence, sovereignty and statehood.