Simonyan made up a story": Maria Zakharova responded to the publication of the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia about the inaction of the CSTO.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the statements of the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Alan Simonyan that the CSTO allegedly ignored Yerevan's appeals "a legend." This is how the diplomat responded to Lanta. ru" responded to the publication of an Armenian politician who published a derogatory text about the organization on his Telegram channel.
"Actually it's a quartet. The last line reads like this: "Simonyan came up with a story," Zakharova said.
The reason for the controversy in the absence was the statement of the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov on November 11. According to him, the heads of CSTO member states denied Armenia the right to vote in the organization, as Yerevan did not meet its obligations for several years. As the first official response of the Armenian authorities to this decision, Security Council Secretary Alan Simonyan published a poetic post in which he accused the CSTO of deliberate inaction and ignoring requests from Iran to send the organization's forces during the events in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020-2021.
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