The Prime Minister of Armenia refused to sign documents at the CSTO summit

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Kostia Andreikovets
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At the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Yerevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan refused to sign the draft declaration of the CSTO Collective Security Council and the document on joint measures to provide assistance to Armenia.

This was reported by the press service of the government.

At the summit, Pashinyan called on the organization to give a political assessment of Azerbaijanʼs "aggressive actions" against Armenia.

According to him, the CSTO allies should seek from Azerbaijan the withdrawal of troops from the part of Nagorno-Karabakh occupied by them; otherwise, it "may mean the CSTOʼs refusal of its alliance obligations."

The Armenian authorities claim that as a result of armed clashes in September on the border with Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani military occupied part of Armenian sovereign territory. Baku denies this, pointing out that the borders between the countries are not demarcated.

Meanwhile, Yerevan advocates that the CSTO conduct political and diplomatic work with Azerbaijan so that it withdraws its troops from its declared territories.

The self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, said in his speech at the session of the Collective Security Council that recently there are opinions that the future of the CSTO depends on the outcome of the war in Ukraine.

"If [Russia] wins, the CSTO will live. If it does not win, the CSTO will not exist. I feel that we have reached a consensus that if, God forbid, Russia collapses, our place will be under these ruins," Lukashenko said.