The CSTO countries have not yet accepted Armenia's request to withdraw from the CSTO. All this remains words - for the most part.
Even if Armenia is denied the right to vote in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Yerevan will retain the right to collective security, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"I want to emphasize that even after the adoption of this decision (on denying the right to vote in the CSTO), our Armenian colleagues will in fact maintain all the basic rights according to the Collective Security Treaty, including the right to collective security itself," he said at a press conference with CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Mesdikov after the joint meeting.