Armenia has not notified CIS of plans to leave the organization: Lebedev

Armenia has not raised the possibility of leaving the CIS, despite Yerevan’s de facto suspension of its participation in the CSTO. Sergey Lebedev, Secretary General of the CIS, told TASS this on the sidelines of an international forum on ensuring collective security.

“No. The prime minister told me so personally, as did many others: they are staying in the CIS. We have not heard a single statement that they intend to leave,” Lebedev said when asked whether Armenia had expressed a wish to leave the CIS.