CSTO Sec Gen: All our obligations to Armenia are still maintained

ArmInfo.The Collective Security Treaty Organization expects Armenia to officially clarify  its status in the organization. CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov told journalists on the sidelines of the meeting of the organization's Council of Foreign Ministers in Almaty.

"I think that the political leadership in Armenia will still clarify  the situation, and there will be an official decision - to be in the  organization or not," he said, RIA Novosti reports.

According to Tasmagambetov, the CSTO retains all commitments to  Armenia, the country remains an ally of the organization.

"Armenia was and is our ally in the CSTO, and all our obligations to  Armenia are still maintained. But the issue of membership in the  organization is a sovereign right and decision of the country," he  said.

As ArmInfo reported on June 19, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat  Mirzoyan will not participate in the Council of CSTO Foreign  Ministers in Almaty. Back in February, Armenia announced that it was  freezing CSTO membership and refused to pay membership fees in this  regard. On June 12, the Armenian Prime Minister also did not rule out  from the parliamentary rostrum that Yerevan could leave the CSTO in  the future.