“If the prime minister was able to postpone his resignation for the Francophonie summit, why didn’t he do that for the CSTO,” President of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Armen Ashotyan, said to reporters. He thinks that Nikol Pashinyan was right in postponing his resignation until after the Francophonie summit was over, but he does not understand why Nikol Pashinyan did not have the same approach for the CSTO.
The CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was to take place in Yerevan at the end of October, but it has been moved to Moscow. The members of the Russian parliament decided to do this based on Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation.
In any case, Armen Ashotyan is happy that the current government took the torch from the previous government in the Francophonie summit. He’s happy that one of the declarations regarding the Artsakh question was almost exactly like one of the documents accepted during Serzh Sargsyan’s administration. He considers this to be a continuation of the former administration’s politics.
Armen Ashotyan told reporters that he had been invited to all the important Francophonie events, including the dinner in honor of the Canadian prime minister and the inauguration ceremony of the Yerevan mayor. But he did not participate because he went to Artsakh with his family.
