Lebedev: Armenia has not yet notified of its desire to withdraw CIS

ArmInfo.Armenia has not yet notified of its desire to withdraw the Commonwealth of Independent  States (CIS), freeze, or reduce its participation. CIS Secretary General Sergei Lebedev told Izvestia.

"No, there are no plans [to reduce cooperation between Armenia and  the CIS]. [Yerevan is interested in contacts with the CIS] in many  areas: economically, of course, politically, and humanitarianly. They  have certain doubts and complications with the CSTO in the  military-political sphere. Otherwise, as far as the CIS is concerned,  there are no issues," he said.

Recall, Armenia is boycotting events  within the CSTO framework. 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. On September 18, 2024, at the  Second GlobalArmenian Summit, Pashinyan stated that the CSTO posed  threats to Armenia's security, its continued existence, sovereignty,  and statehood.