Lavrov: Armenia has not submitted a request to withdraw from the CSTO and the EAEU.

ArmInfo. Armenia has not submitted an official request to leave the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"No such request was submitted, just as no request to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Union was submitted," the Russian Foreign Minister told reporters following a joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers, and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils, in response to a question on the matter.

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry drew attention to the fact that it has been more than a year since Armenia adopted a law on the beginning of the official process of joining the European Union, which is incompatible with membership in the EAEU, a fact acknowledged by Armenian leaders, including Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

"Completely different phytosanitary and other standards, tariff approaches," he cited as examples. Lavrov.

As a reminder, Armenia has been boycotting CSTO events since the end of 2022. In February 2024, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that Armenia had effectively frozen its participation in the CSTO because the organization had failed to fulfill its obligations to Armenia, which could not go without 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.