General Staff: Armenia still in CSTO

Armenia has not yet withdrawn from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Edvard Asryan, said at a briefing, Report informs via TASS.

He added that he cannot comment on the consequences of the country’s withdrawal from the CSTO, since this is a state secret.

Earlier, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, answering a question from an opposition MP, said that the freezing of relations with the CSTO also means the absence of an Armenian permanent representative to the organization.