Regarding Pashinian’s thesis about the “freezing of participation” in the CSTO, the Secretariat added that it is all about “the non-participation of the Republic of Armenia in a series of events that the organization has recently held.”

On Friday, Pashinian stated in an interview with France24 television channel that the CSTO was not put into practice with regards to Armenia, which is why Yerevan suspended its participation in the organization.

The Collective Security Treaty was signed in 1992 between Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. A year later, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Georgia joined the pact. Azerbaijan, Georgia and Uzbekistan withdrew from the Treaty in 1999, but the latter’s membership was restored in 2006 and lasted until 2012.

The Collective Security Council decided to grant the Treaty the status of an international organization in 2002, when Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan approved the CSTO Charter.

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