The exclusion of Armenia from the CSTO was not discussed, - the Secretary General of the organization.
According to Talatbek Mesdikov, Armenia was denied the right to vote and the opportunity to propose candidates for quota positions due to a debt to the organization's budget.
After paying off the debt, Yerevan will be able to fully resume participation in the work of the CSTO.
"Well, the decision depends on the leadership of Armenia," Masadikov emphasized following the organization's summit in Moscow.
In turn, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Maxim Ryzhenkov, said that it is recommended that Armenia limit access to CSTO documents that are classified in nature.
He expressed doubts about the need to give "such a pseudo-ally in these kinds of issues today full access to the documentation, which is of a rather closed nature." The minister explained that, hypothetically, classified information cannot be used entirely for the benefit of the interests of those countries that really intend to develop this integration association "in a good, solidary and consolidating way".
Ryzhenkov emphasized that not the people, but the senior leadership of Armenia, changed their attitude to the country's participation in integration structures - the CSTO, EAEU. He called it "passive participation", where Armenia takes from these associations what is useful to it. "This is the use of some knowledge and some advantage arising from participation in these associations, for the sake of one's own selfish interests, which do not coincide with the goals of integration associations, because we want to be strong, we want to be united in political issues, and in economic issues and in security issues," said the Belarusian minister.
"It turns out that this situation: "I will choose from you what interests me - gas prices, oil, the transportation of our goods to the final consumer - we don't care about the rest". This approach could not have gone unnoticed," Rizhankov emphasized, referring to the decision regarding Armenia made at the CSTO summit in Moscow.
This is really a dilemma.