Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan did not go to Minsk for the meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member countries. Aram Torosyan, spokesman of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) of Armenia, told Armenian News-NEWS.am about this, noting that Papikyan will attend the government Cabinet session today.

Instead of Papikyan, Artak Tonoyan, the Armenian MOD representative at the CSTO Joint Headquarters, went to the Belarusian capital to attend the aforesaid CSTO meeting.