Armenia refused to participate in the CSTO meeting in Moscow

Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan will not take part in the visiting meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, which will be held in Moscow on December 19.

Sources: information Agency “News-Armenia” with reference to the statement of the press secretary of the chairman of the Armenian parliament Tsovinar Khachatryan

Direct speech: “The RA NA delegation will also not take part in the meeting. Alen Simonyan informed the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin in an official letter about his decision not to go to Moscow.”

What preceded:

• Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan refused the self-proclaimed leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who requested him at the CSTO summit in Minsk on November 23. Armenia also did not participate in the meetings preceding the session of the CSTO Council.

Let us remind you:

• After Azerbaijan’s lightning-fast operation to return Nagorno-Karabakh to its control in Armenia hold the Russian Federation responsible not only because the “peacekeepers” stationed in Karabakh were absolutely passive, but also for openly playing along with Baku’s actions.
• The Russian Foreign Ministry publicly criticized the latest statements of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for “U-turn from the Russian Federation”.
• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says the European Union is his country’s key partner and it is ready to be as close to the EU as possible.

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