News - CSTO Secretariat not received membership suspension petition from Armenia

The Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has not received a petition from Armenia about the suspension of membership, the CSTO Secretariat has said. "Until today, the CSTO Secretariat has not received a petition from Yerevan about the suspension of CSTO membership. As for the [Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan’s] argument about the freezing of [Armenia’s] participation [in the CSTO], apparently, it is about Armenia's non-participation in a number of events which were recently carried out by the organization," the CSTO Secretariat told RIA Novosti. Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said—in an interview to France 24 television—that the Collective Security Treaty has not been implemented with respect to Armenia, and therefore Yerevan has frozen its participation in the CSTO.