No application received from Armenia for suspension of membership -  CSTO Secretariat 

ArmInfo. The Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has not received a  petition from Armenia about the suspension of membership, the CSTO Secretariat has said.

"Until today, the CSTO Secretariat has not received a petition from  Yerevan about the suspension of CSTO membership. As for the [Armenian  PM Nikol Pashinyan's] argument about the freezing of [Armenia's]  participation [in the CSTO], apparently, it is about Armenia's  non-participation in a number of events which were recently carried  out by the organization," the CSTO Secretariat told RIA Novosti.

Armenia has frozen its participation in the Russian-led Collective  Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) because the pact had failed the  country, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview  broadcast on Thursday.

Pashinyan told France 24 television that the CSTO pact, dominated by  Russia, had failed Armenia.

"The Collective Security Treaty has not fulfilled its objectives as  far as Armenia is concerned, particularly in 2021 and 2022. And we  could not let that happen without taking notice," Pashinyan said  through an interpreter.

"We have now in practical terms frozen our participation in this  treaty. As for what comes next, we shall have to see."