A security system is not just contracts; they are weapons, they are soldiers, they are legal international contracts. Hakob Arshakyan, deputy speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, stated this to reporters at the NA Tuesday—and when asked whether the West offers Armenia a security alternative to the CSTO.

"We see that, for example, from the point of view of arms acquisitions, at least there are alternatives, and Armenia is using them. From the point of view of arms acquisitions, the Armenian army obviously has various suppliers [now], which was not the case [before], sadly," said Arshakyan.