TASS. The European security system has been obliterated at the hands of the collective West, this is why preventing “the common Eurasian home” from becoming an arena of geopolitical confrontation is important, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
He also said that the CSTO had agreed to consider applying the relevant article of the association’s charter to Armenia over the republic’s failure to pay fees for two years.
TASS has compiled the key statements of the foreign minister.
Armenia remains formally a full member of the CSTO: “Armenia has indeed again skipped the CSTO events, although it remains formally a full member of the organization.”
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Armenia needs to quickly choose between the European Union and the EAEU, the issue is already pressing: “Armenia has already adopted a law on joining the European Union, so the issue is already urgent.”
Armenia is systematically increasing its cooperation with NATO: “Not participating in the CSTO, but remaining a formal member for more than two years, I think, the Armenian colleagues do not come to events. At the same time, they are actively increasing cooperation with the NATO member countries, military exercises are underway, military goods are being purchased, and military delegations are being exchanged with both NATO and the European Union, which is also now turning into a militarized structure.”
The CSTO countries have agreed to consider applying the relevant article of the association’s charter to Armenia due to the republic’s non-payment of fees for two years: “Armenia has been in debt to the CSTO budget for more than two years. The situation stipulated by the charter of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. And today we have agreed to look into the use of the relevant article of the CSTO charter.”