Armenia should understand whether to treat CSTO seriously or not: Acting PM

Armenian acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told the reporters today that the post of the CSTO secretary general is not Armenia’s forever, it is based on rotation principle and Armenia’s term is to end at certain period.

“Our issue is not to preserve the post of the secretary general and the status, for us the important thing is CSTO’s content and clarification of mutual commitments,” he said, adding that there was time when the rotation principle was not acting and one person was holding the post of the CSTO secretary general for a long period of time.

He stressed that the issue is deeper and added that he is pleased with the discussions conducted recently. “Very open and frank discussions took place that had never taken place in the CSTO before,” he added.

“And we, understanding our security environment. must ask ourselves whether we need to treat the CSTO seriously or not. It is a very important issue,” he said.