The authorities of Armenia officially refused to participate in the CSTO meeting in Moscow despite threats from Moscow and Minsk.
Armenia continues to ignore Russia on the international stage
The National Assembly of Armenia Speaker, Alen Simonyan, said that he will not participate in the external meeting of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the CSTO.
According to preliminary data, it will occur in Moscow on December 19.
The spokeswoman of the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, Tsovinar Khachatryan, confirmed this information.
The delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia will not take part in the meeting either. Alen Simonyan informed the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin about his decision not to go to Moscow in an official letter, she said.
Against this background, one cannot fail to mention that earlier, the leader of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, refused the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who invited him to the CSTO summit in Minsk on November 23.
Moreover, Armenia also did not participate in the meetings preceding the session of the CSTO Council.
Lukashenko called Pashinyan's actions a "demarche".
Armenia may leave the CSTO
Recently, Armenian leader Nikol Pashinyan hinted to official Moscow that he is already considering the withdrawal of his country from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) after a conflict with the team of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Our partners in the CSTO also need to understand us. If we, as members of the CSTO, cannot receive the necessary help and support, and at the same time membership is an insurmountable obstacle to receiving help from other parties, then we have to make decisions based on our own interests, Nikol Pashinyan said recently, at the same time reprimanding Putin.
It is essential to understand that the main reason for the conflict between Armenia and the Russian Federation was Azerbaijan's blitzkrieg to return Nagorno-Karabakh under its control.
As you know, Moscow did not help Yerevan in any way.
