ArmInfo. Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan refused to participate in the visiting meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, which is scheduled to be held on December 19 in Moscow, Tsovinar Khachatryan, Spokesperson for Parliament Speaker.
According to her, the delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia will also not take part in the meeting. "Alen Simonyan notified the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin about his decision not to go to Moscow," Khachatryan noted.
Earlier in a conversation with journalists, Simonyan said that he would not go to a meeting of the CSTO PA Council. The country's top political leadership is practically boycotting its participation in CSTO summits and in its statutory organizations.
These demarches of the Armenian side are due to the lack of reaction of the Organization to the aggressive policy of Baku. However, there is no talk of leaving the CSTO yet.