ArmInfo. The decision on who will occupy the post of the CSTO Secretary General will be made on December 6 at the organization's summit in St. Petersburg; Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov will remain in charge until that time, said Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, RIA News reports.
"The heads of state and government agreed to take the appropriate final decision on December 6 in St. Petersburg. Now the acting officer will continue to work until December 6," Peskov told journalists.
To recall, CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov is accused of overthrowing the constitutional order in the so-called "March 1, 2008 case." At that time he held the post of the head of the Yerevan garrison. By a court decision of July 28, he was arrested and then released on bail in the amount of 5 million drams. The second Armenian President Robert Kocharyan is also accused within the same case, as well as the former head of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia Mikael Harutyunyan who is on the wanted list. Khachaturov has returned to Yerevan today.