Earlier on Friday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that the Collective Security Treaty on Armenia had not been implemented and that Yerevan had suspended its participation in the CSTO.
"To date, the CSTO Secretariat has not received any notices from Yerevan on the suspension of its CSTO membership. As for the thesis on the participation freezing, it seems that we are talking about Armenia’s non-participation in a number of events that have been held by the organization recently," the secretariat said.
Commenting on the suspension of Armenia'a participation in the organization, the prime minister noted that the Collective Security Treaty was not implemented in relation to Yerevan, particularly back in 2021-2022, and the country [Armenia] could not ignore this fact.