Friday, February 22 2019 15:21

ArmInfo. There is no vacuum in the operational management of the CSTO due to disagreements over the election of a new Secretary General of the organization. This was announced today to journalists by the press secretary of the  President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, in response to a  question about the existing discussions around the coordination of  the new secretary of the organization.

"Neither the Kremlin nor any other CSTO members have any frustration,  and there is no vacuum in the CSTO leadership. Because, you know, the  acting secretary-general works there who will perform the duties. He  is not a stranger who will fulfill his duties before the situation  with the new General Secretary clears up, "said Peskov, while  confirming that there are indeed some differences among the members  that are currently being resolved. According to him, this process  continues.

To note, "Kommersant", citing its sources, said that the CSTO could  remain without a full-fledged general secretary for the coming year,  pointing out that the appointment of the head of the Security Council  of Belarus Stanislav Zas is delayed "because of the obstinacy of  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who counted approve your  candidate. "

The publication also stated that the CSTO resigned to the fact that  because of the position of Armenia in the organization, there would  not be a full-fledged general secretary for another year, whose  duties will continue to be performed by the representative of the  Russian Federation Valery Semerikov. "We presume that until early  2020, the CSTO will be headed by the Acting Secretary General," said  an informed source of Kommersant at the Russian Foreign Ministry.

ЊҐ¦ ⥬, ®дЁжЁ «м­л© …ॢ ­ Ї®Є  ­Ґ ­ §лў Ґв ба®Є®ў ў®§¬®¦­®© ўбваҐзЁ  Џ иЁ­п­  б ‡ бҐ¬. -0- To recall, the representative of Armenia, Yuri  Khachaturov, who had previously held the post of the CSTO Secretary  General, was dismissed from office, his deputy Valery Semerikov  became acting member.  Armenian investigators charged Khachaturov  with overthrowing the constitutional order in a criminal case on  dispersing protest actions on March 1, 2008. The court released  Khachaturov on bail. After that, Armenia offered the CSTO countries  to begin the process of replacing the organization's secretary  general.  After the scandal that broke out in the organization,  Belarus nominated Stanislav Zas for the post of the CSTO Secretary  General. At the end of last year, the heads of five of the six states  that are members of the bloc (the CSTO members are Armenia, Belarus,  Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan) approved candidature  of Zas after meeting him.  Meanwhile, official Yerevan has not yet  named the dates of a possible meeting between Pashinyan and Zas.