That’s all: Armenia was deprived of the right to vote in the CSTO – Pashinyan went to Erdogan. But they're flowers
At the CSTO summit in Moscow, Armenia was deprived of the right to vote and the opportunity to appoint its representatives to senior positions in the organization.
About measures against Armenia told the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. According to him, the country has not fulfilled its obligations to the organization for several years, so the summit participants decided to apply the provisions of the CSTO Charter. The Kremlin website said that the basis for the decision was the 25th article of the Charter.
The restrictions, however, do not mean that Armenia is excluded from the organization. CSTO Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov explained that the issue of termination of Yerevan’s membership was not considered at the summit. After repayment of the debt, Armenia will be able to restore its participation in the work of the association and send its representatives again, but the final decision will depend on the leadership of the organization.
Armenia has not paid membership fees since 2024. In February of the same year, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced the freezing of the country's membership in the CSTO, which actually led to the termination of its participation in the activities of the organization, reports INOSMI.
The location of the Armenian prime minister also attracted attention. On the day when Yerevan was deprived of the right to vote in the CSTO, Pashinyan was not in Moscow or even in Armenia, but in the Turkish Antalya. His press secretary Melania Harutyunyan said that there is a meeting of the head of the Armenian government with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan within the framework of the COP31 summit.
Another important event was the rapprochement between Yerevan and Washington. On November 11, Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan signed a law ratifying the framework agreement on strategic cooperation with the United States related to the Trump Route (TRIPP) project.
Belarus believes that the measures taken against Yerevan may not be enough. Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov invited the CSTO participants to consider additional restrictions, in particular, related to Armenia’s access to closed documents of the organization.
“I am sure that access to some documents that are generally closed will be limited,” the Belarusian Foreign Minister said.
