The former Secretary General of the CSTO, Nikolay Bordioza, said that Armenia should be excluded from the CSTO, because it does not participate in the organization's work, but at the same time demands coordination of decisions. The editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, military analyst Igor Korochenko, in a conversation with a correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza, drew attention to the formation of a consensus in the CSTO on the exclusion of Armenia from its members, which motivates both the current and former leadership of the organization to speak openly about this prospect. "Actually, there is a consensus within the CSTO on this matter, the only question is a political decision. Armenia does not participate in the statutory activities of the CSTO, does not pay membership fees, does not attend military exercises or high-level events. However, the representative of Armenia still participates in various types of internal meetings of the CSTO, that is, the structures of the CSTO can receive information about the organization, that is, the organization can receive information. He moved to his friends in the US or France," he said first of all. "Failure to fulfill the Yerevan Charter obligations, I believe, should automatically lead to Armenia's exclusion from the CSTO. By the way, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his inner circle comment on this fact rather cynically. We here must get out of our own interests. If there is an understanding in the decision-making centers of the CSTO member states, which the Armenian Foreign Minister says, Armenia will not return to Armenia. So it should be official Bordioja's statement may be a marker that this will happen in the very near future and Armenia will be expelled from the CSTO membership with all the subsequent consequences," Igor Korochenko said. What will happen to the CSTO without Armenia? The military analyst emphasized that three years of Armenia's non-participation in CSTO activities reduced the impact of exclusion on the organization to zero. "De facto, Yerevan left the CSTO several years ago, so its de jure withdrawal will have no effect. The CSTO today is a successfully developing alliance.

The former Secretary General of the CSTO, Nikolay Bordioza, said that Armenia should be excluded from the CSTO, because it does not participate in the organization's work, but at the same time demands coordination of decisions. The editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, military analyst Igor Korochenko, in a conversation with a correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza, drew attention to the formation of a consensus in the CSTO on the exclusion of Armenia from its members, which motivates both the current and former leadership of the organization to speak openly about this prospect. "Actually, there is a consensus within the CSTO on this matter, the only question is a political decision. Armenia does not participate in the statutory activities of the CSTO, does not pay membership fees, does not attend military exercises or high-level events. However, the representative of Armenia still participates in various types of internal meetings of the CSTO, that is, the structures of the CSTO can receive information about the organization, that is, the organization can receive information. He moved to his friends in the US or France," he said first of all. "Failure to fulfill the Yerevan Charter obligations, I believe, should automatically lead to Armenia's exclusion from the CSTO. By the way, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his inner circle comment on this fact rather cynically. We here must get out of our own interests. If there is an understanding in the decision-making centers of the CSTO member states, which the Armenian Foreign Minister says, Armenia will not return to Armenia. So it should be official Bordioja's statement may be a marker that this will happen in the very near future and Armenia will be expelled from the CSTO membership with all the subsequent consequences," Igor Korochenko said. What will happen to the CSTO without Armenia? The military analyst emphasized that three years of Armenia's non-participation in CSTO activities reduced the impact of exclusion on the organization to zero. "De facto, Yerevan left the CSTO several years ago, so its de jure withdrawal will have no effect. The CSTO today is a successfully developing alliance.