News - Armenia legislature head on Russia deputy FM: Enough of threatening us!

First of all, let them stop threatening us. Enough of threatening us! Secondly, it is enough to talk about the CSTO. When they talk about the CSTO, before that, let them come, say where the border of the CSTO passes, what obligations they have as a CSTO partner and as a party to the Armenia-Russia treaty. Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, Alen Simonyan, told this to reporters Friday in the NA—and referring to the Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Galuzin's statement that Armenia's “thoughtless” steps may make it impossible to return to joint work with Russia and other CSTO countries toward creating a single defense area. Galuzin had noted as follows: "However, thoughtless decisions that will provide Westerners with full access to national databases, sensitive information for the country's security, not only threaten the sovereignty of the state, but may also make it objectively impossible to return to joint work with Russia and other CSTO allies toward building a single defense area." "Secondly, Armenia does not conduct negotiations with any country, does not discuss the installation of any military base, joining any military alliance. I call the transfer of data on national databases absurd. It is enough to speak with such rhetoric regarding us! It is enough to threaten us, directly and indirectly, with those preachers of theirs, ‘mankurts’ with Armenian surnames, who are paid for it. It does not affect our country, society, it has the opposite effect. We are neither familiar with it nor guided by it. I don't think I should respond to that gentleman; the [Armenian] MFA will find proper, respond," added Alen Simonyan.