RA MFA announces its position on possible meeting with CSTO Secretary  General

ArmInfo. Armenia's position on CSTO membership is known and has not changed.  Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan stated this in a conversation with ArmInfo in response to a question about whether the Armenian authorities are considering a meeting with the CSTO Secretary  General.

"Armenia's position on the CSTO is known both within the organization  and publicly. There is nothing to add to this," she said.

It should be noted that on April 6, during a meeting with CSTO  Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov, Belarusian President Alexander  Lukashenko considered it important to organize meetings between the  CSTO Secretary General and the Armenian leadership. According to  Lukashenko, it would be a good idea for Masadykov to visit Yerevan  and speak with the Prime Minister, the President, and the Secretary  of the Security Council of Armenia to determine their position going  forward.

As a reminder, Armenia has been boycotting CSTO events since late  2022. In February 2024, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  stated that Armenia had effectively frozen its participation in the  CSTO, as the organization had failed to fulfill its obligations to  Armenia, which would inevitably have consequences. And on September  18, 2024, at the Second World Armenian Summit, Pashinyan stated that  the CSTO posed threats to Armenia's security, its continued  existence, sovereignty, and statehood.