The Russian Federation will not insist on the exclusion of Armenia from the CSTO.
Russia will not expel Armenia from the CSTO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. "If they want us to expel Armenia (from the CSTO - IF), we will not do it," he said at a press conference after a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CMID), the Council of Defense Ministers (CMO) and the Committee of Secretaries of the Security Councils (CSSC) of the CSTO in Moscow.