Armenia does not plan to reduce cooperation with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) or withdraw from it, CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev told Izvestia.

“No, there is no plan to reduce [Armenia-CIS cooperation]. [Yerevan is interested in contacts with the CIS] in many areas: economic, political and, of course, humanitarian. In the politico-military sphere, in connection with the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), they have certain doubts and difficulties. In other issues, as far as the CIS is concerned, there are no problems,” the CIS Secretary General noted.