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Yerevan doesn’t see any problem with Belarus nominating a candidate for Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. This is what Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan said today as he answered deputies’ questions during the session of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly devoted to ratification of the Second Protocol on Amendments to the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992.

According to the deputy minister, Armenia has problems with neither Belarus nor its candidate. “There was another problem, that is, the representative of another country can’t be appointed to the position of Secretary General during Armenia’s chairmanship in the CSTO, and Armenia achieved this,” Kocharyan said.

During one of its sessions, the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of CSTO Member States adopted a decision to present to the heads of states — for consideration — the nomination of representative of Belarus Stanislav Zaas for Secretary General of the CSTO starting from January 1, 2020.

The position of CSTO Secretary General has been vacant since 2018 after Armenia prematurely recalled its representative Yuri Khachaturov, who, along with other Armenian politicians, is charged with overthrow of constitutional order under the case of the events of March 1, 2008 by the Armenian government.

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