Armenia neither requested nor proposed postponement of CSTO summit: Nikol Pashinyan

The issue on appointment of CSTO secretary general will be solved via consensus, Armenia’s acting PM Nikol Pashinyan told the reporters today.

As to yesterday's statement of the aide to the Russian president Yuri Ushakov who said that the CSTO summit has been postponed at the request of the Armenian side, Pashinyan said his spokesperson as well as he himself have already stated what happened.

“Armenia has not requested or proposed anything. We have stated that we have our candidate for the post of the CSTO secretary general and continue negotiating over him,” he said.

Asked why the Russian side came up with such statement, the acting PM said, “I cannot say, it is rather strange.”

Asked whether he will discuss the issue at the meeting with Vladimir Putin, Pashinyan said, “During our meetings we discuss all possible issues, but I do not think we should discuss the statement of his aide, there are much more important issues to refer to,” Pashinyan said, adding that he has many times stated that the issue of the CSTO secretary general is not the most important one, there are more serious issues like the commitments the CSTO member states have before one another and the mechanisms of the implementation of these commitments.

He said on December 6 Eurasian Economic Union’s Supreme Council session will take place which besides the established agenda envisages non-formal contacts in the sidelines of the CIS.