As soon as Armenia resolves the issue of paying off its membership fees, its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) may be restored, CSTO Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov said, RIA Novosti reports.

"As soon as Armenia decides to pay off its membership fees, its participation may be restored both in terms of sending its employees on business and participating in the work of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

The decision is up to the [Armenian] leadership," Masadykov told reporters after the CSTO summit in Moscow. According to Masadykov, the matter of expelling Armenia from the organization was not raised at the CSTO summit.

Earlier, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov informed that the participants of the CSTO summit in Moscow had decided to deprive Armenia of its voting rights in the organization.