YEREVAN. - Eighteenth meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC) is being held in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.
The participants will discuss, in particular, matters with respect to the implementation of the ICMEC decisions that were reached at the meeting last September in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the carrying out of the CSTO Military-Economic Cooperation Program that was adopted in May 2016.
Armenia does not participate in CSTO Military Committee meeting
PM: CSTO didn’t want to come as ally but as peacekeeper, this would gradually have dissolved Armenia
Deputy FM: Armenia has not been formally requested to withdraw from CSTO
Deputy FM: We await CSTO to assess fact of occupation of Armenia’s sovereign territories
Russia MFA: Armenia continues to be full member of CSTO
CSTO considers its area of responsibility in Armenia to be its sovereign territory within regulated national borders
