The presence of Armenia in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which is actually headed by Russia, creates “certain problems” for it, so it is important for Yerevan to cooperate with Western partners on security issues.
About it live Public Television of Armenia Armen Grigoryan, Secretary of the country’s Security Council, said “European Truth”.
According to him, from 2020 “it is difficult to enter any example” of assistance to Armenia from the CSTO.
“During the three large-scale attacks by Azerbaijan, the CSTO did not provide any assistance to Armenia, and when Armenia eventually looked for and found alternatives, such as the deployment of an EU monitoring mission, only then did the CSTO begin to provide its assistance,” Grigoryan added.
“Armenia was attacked three times, and in the end the so-called military bloc offers Armenia a fact-finding mission. It’s not serious, at least,” he said.
Another problem, according to the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, is the payment for Russian weapons for delays in their delivery.
“We see the reality that exists – this is the Russia-Ukraine war, Russia’s ability to serve its own war, and the fact that its capabilities are not so great as to export weapons, and we have chosen the path of searching for other resources. There are many countries with with which we are intensively negotiating the purchase of weapons,” Grigoryan said.
The CSTO is a military-political international organization that includes Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
Earlier, the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia said that in the country discussed the possibility of from the Collective Security Treaty Organization. And in May, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that the country’s withdrawal from the CSTO not off the agenda.
2023-06-05 13:27:09
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