Yerevan is trying to shift responsibility for its decisions onto the CSTO

Armenia is once again trying to shift responsibility for its own decisions onto the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Alexander Pankin, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, said in an interview with TASS.

He noted that although Armenia has frozen its participation in the CSTO and is not paying its dues, the country still remains a full member of the organization.

“We are not leaving Yerevan out of our cooperation, and we keep open the opportunity for our partners to join all decisions made within the organization, which would ultimately be fully in their interests. Unfortunately, we see no reciprocal steps from the Armenian side. If anything, the opposite: once again, there are attempts to shift responsibility for decisions onto others,” Pankin stressed.

In this regard, the Russian deputy foreign minister recalled that “in accordance with the provisions of the CSTO Charter, a member state may be deprived of the right to vote until its accumulated arrears in contributions are paid in full.”