Armenia asks CSTO to remove assistance document from agenda, CSTO Secretary General says

CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov said at a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that Armenia had asked the organization’s partners to remove the country’s assistance document from the agenda.

On November 22, Minsk will host meetings of the Councils of Ministers of Defense, Foreign Affairs and the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO countries, and on November 23, the CSTO summit will take place.
As reported earlier, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan informed Lukashenko that he would not attend the summit.

“As for the status of the action plan for the decisions of the Collective Security Council adopted at the November session last year and the priority areas of Belarus, I would like to report that 32 out of 34 measures have been implemented. Two measures have not been fulfilled unfortunately. These are, first of all, our international contacts with European international organizations, such as the OSCE, primarily because of their stance. The second item was the Armenia assistance document which the Collective Security Council instructed us to finalize.

Armenia, although all other member states supported the document, did not express any interest in it and, in the final part of our work, asked us to remove the document from the agenda,” the press center of the President of Belarus reported, citing Tasmagambetov.