The restoration of Armenia's voting rights in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is possible if the country is re-engaged in the organization's work, according to Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov, first deputy chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia.

"For this, Armenia must participate in the current work of the CSTO: be present at meetings, consultations, conferences, and CSTO parliamentary conferences held two or three times a year; that is, [Armenia must] show that it is an active participant [of the CSTO]," Dzhabarov said in an interview with aif.ru.

The Russian senator added that Armenia must participate also in joint military exercises of the fellow CSTO countries.

On Wednesday, the participants of the CSTO summit in Moscow decided, based on Article 25 of the organization's charter, to suspend Armenia's right to nominate its candidates for positions provided for it by the quota, as well as to deprive it of its voting rights in the organization until its debt is fully repaid, which has arisen as a result of Armenia's non-payment of its CSTO membership fees since 2024, when the country had announced the "freezing" of its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization.