ArmInfo.Armenia has nevermade statements regarding its intention to withdraw from CSTO, but Yerevan is concerned about the organization's attitude towards the republic, Alen Simonyan, speaker of the Armenian parliament, said on December 5.
"Every day, Azerbaijan violates the ceasefire regime, as a result of which people die. Some passivity of the CSTO, as well as official statements by some of our allies, caused significant changes in the public mood in Armenia," Simonyan said, RIA Novosti quotes.
"We have never made statements about leaving the CSTO, we said that the CSTO is leaving the region, we are very concerned about this. It seems that the territory of Armenia does not have equal strategic importance for the CSTO, while close attention is paid to the Eastern European region and Central Asia," the speaker said during a joint meeting of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the fifteenth plenary meeting of the CSTO PA. The CSTO PA is a body of inter-parliamentary cooperation. The members of the CSTO PA are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, the lower house of the National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, the National Assembly of Serbia have observer status.