Armenia's interest in membership in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has dried up, Nikol Pashinyan said, A News reports. "I want to state once and for all: our interests related to the CSTO have dried up. We no longer have interests related to the CSTO," the country's prime minister stressed. A day earlier, on November 4, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Mesdikov said that the organization might consider applying Article 25 of the organization's charter to Armenia. It establishes the right to suspend a country's right to appoint its citizens to quota positions in the organization and to deny it the right to vote if it is a two-year delay in the organization's budget. Armenia effectively froze participation in the CSTO in 2024, and stopped paying membership fees and participating in the organization's main events. At the same time, Yervan did not officially announce her retirement from the association. The Russian Foreign Ministry later noted that refusing to pay mandatory fees could lead to "various scenarios." RBC channel at max.