Yerevan. November 23. INTERFAX - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan refused to sign the draft declaration of the CSTO Collective Security Council and the draft on joint measures to assist Armenia.
According to the press service of the government, speaking at the session of the CSTO Security Council, Pashinyan stated the importance of the Organization's political assessment of Azerbaijan's actions against Armenia.
"A political assessment is necessary, first of all, from a moral point of view, since this should be a logical manifestation of allied relations. Of course, this is also important from the point of view of restoring the territorial integrity of our country, but this aspiration in itself does not mean military intervention," Pashinyan said.
According to him, Armenia proposes by the decision of the CSTO Security Council to accelerate the necessary political and diplomatic work with the Azerbaijani side aimed at the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Azerbaijani troops from the sovereign territory of Armenia to their starting positions as of May 11, 2021.
"Such a position is important not only for the restoration of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia, but also for deterring Azerbaijan from further aggressive actions against our country. The fact that the risk of a new aggression by Azerbaijan against the territorial integrity of Armenia remains, was reported by the Secretary General of the CSTO Stanislav Vasilyevich Zas at an extraordinary meeting of the SCB on October 28 this year. In these circumstances, the lack of a clear political assessment of the situation and the failure to accept the above-mentioned decision may mean not only the rejection of the CSTO's allied obligations, but may also be interpreted by Azerbaijan as a green light from the CSTO for further aggression against Armenia," the Armenian Prime Minister said.
He noted that this contradicts not only the letter, but also the spirit and meaning of the fundamental documents of the CSTO.
