ArmInfo.The CSTO secretariat does not have official statements and requests from Azerbaijan to join the CSTO. The Acting Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov said this during the teleconference Moscow-Yerevan-Nur-Sultan-Minsk-Bishkek, answering the question of ArmInfo.
<We have not received official statements from Azerbaijan to the organization's secretariat. If someone on such a platform made such a statement, pursuing any specific goals, then this is one question, and if we consider the question and talk about Azerbaijan's accession to the CSTO, then I recall again, we have a charter, certain procedural issues that determine all the conditions in order to become a member of our organization, "he explained, stressing that in such matters is guided by official documents received by the organization.