Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Alen Simonyan, reacted—with poetry—to Wednesday’s decision to deprive Armenia of its voting rights in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

Simonyan wrote as follows—in Russian—on Facebook:

“They stripped us of our voice right there,

where everyone was loudly silent

as they killed us, all in unison.”

As reported earlier, during the CSTO summit held in Moscow on Wednesday, it was decided to deprive Armenia of its voting rights and of the opportunity to appoint its representatives to responsible positions in the organization. In 2024, Yerevan had announced the “freezing” of its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization.