Zakharova to political leadership of Armenia: one can continue verbal  games endlessly

ArmInfo.These verbal games can be endless, but it seems to me that it is completely unworthy and cheap. There are strategic interests of states, there are problems that the region, unfortunately, has not yet been able to overcome.

We need to think about security, strategic cooperation, civil  infrastructure, which should be established on the basis of security  and stability for the sake of future generations.

At today's briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria  Zakharova made such a statement, responding to a request to comment  on Nikol Pashinyan's statements describing  CSTO as a "bubble" union  that took part in preparing the war in Karabakh, and that neither he  nor any of its officials will come to Belarus while Alexander  Lukashenko is in charge. 

At today's briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria  Zakharova made such a statement, responding to Nikol Pashinyan's  statements about the CSTO,  which the latter described as a "bubble"  union that participated in the preparation of the war in Karabakh,  and that neither he nor any of his officials will visit Belarus as  long as Alexander Lukashenko is president.

Zakharova noted in this regard that Armenian political scientists can  comment on this statement and public figures: "This is a person who  is the flesh and blood of a certain political establishment and I  leave the comment to their discretion." 

At the same time, Zakharova noted that she drew attention to the  statement regarding the CSTO, that Armenia must and will definitely  leave the Organization. "I just remember that not long ago, current  Armenian politicians said that the CSTO left Armenia. I just want to  clarify, has the CSTO already returned to Armenia so that it can  leave?," Zakharova joked. She preferred to call things by their  proper names:  everything should be done so that "this region is  advanced, so that it develops, and not so that entrenched problems  like fetters, like stones, drag it to the bottom." "That is why we  need to overcome the existing problems in the region, work on  bringing stability, so that the region does not remain on the  sidelines of global development. Now everyone is talking about  multipolarity. For some, the South Caucasus can and should become one  of the centers of this polycentric world. Everything is there for  this. Common borders, coexistence for centuries, natural resources  and people who are famous for their hard work and talent. We need to  work on this component, and not endlessly come up with some very  similar Western memes and <words> thrown in from the West. There is  no need to get confused in this, but simply follow the obvious path  of overcoming existing problems by political and diplomatic means for  the sake of the future of one's own people, future generations. If   there is something to say, let them state it directly and openly,   said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry. As  she noted "it has been said a million times>, the CSTO is an  organization that all members join voluntarily". "There is no  command-and-control system of pressure on member countries, there is  a mutually respectful dialogue, no one holds anyone by force. What is  the problem? Why have political leadership of the same Armenia been  speculating on this topic for so many years? There is the concept of  pre-election rhetoric, and there is the concept of implementing pre-  election promises. Let them somehow figure it out, why deceive their  own people?," asked Zakharova.  "Moreover, I want to note that no  other CSTO member raises these issues with Armenia. This is endless  fuss, a play on words, w which we hear from a number of  representatives of the current political elite of Armenia. No one  calls on them to develop this topic. They do it themselves. And why?  To deceive their own people? To endlessly come up with excuses,  answers to questions asked by their own population? And they do so  because they cannot tell people the truth. They cannot explain why  certain strategic miscalculations and mistakes were made, why certain  national interests were lost. Therefore, someone must be found to  blame. Well, it is definitely not the CSTO,"  said Zakharova.