ArmInfo.Deputy Director of the National Security Service of Armenia Aram Hakobyan is not familiar with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's statement that two CSTO member countries participated in preparing a war against Armenia.
"I haven't heard anything like this," he said on May 29 in parliament in response to a media question whether the National Security Service had the relevant information.
Earlier, Prime Minister Pashinyan said in parliament that he knows "at least two CSTO countries that participated in the preparation of war" against Armenia. He did not specify which states he was talking about. In addition to Armenia, the Collective Security Treaty Organization includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. "These countries created an imitation of helping us, but I want to say that that war was not about Nagorno-Karabakh, it was about ensuring that Armenia not having any value," Pashinyan said during a speech at the National Assembly . In response, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, recommended that the Prime Minister of Armenia name the countries that allegedly engaged in "imitation assistance" to the country during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. "It would be quite logical to voice them if we are talking about such serious statements. But let's leave this to official Yerevan," Zakharova said.