Armenia stops funding CSTO activities.
Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ani Badalyan told Radar Armenia today that Armenia will refrain from “CSTO 2024″. on the budget” of the CSTO Collective Security Council in 2023. from joining the decision of November 23 and participating in the financing of the organization’s activities provided for by it.
Along with that, according to the representative of the diplomatic department, Armenia does not object to the approval of the organization’s 2024 budget in a limited format.
Relations with Russia and the CSTO intensified especially after the attack of Azerbaijan in September 2022. Despite Yerevan’s demands, the CSTO has not yet condemned this attack against Armenia, a member of the bloc, and has not recorded that Azerbaijan has occupied territories from Armenia.
In response, Yerevan rejected the proposal to deploy CSTO observers on the border, and in 2024, Prime Minister Pashinyan announced that Yerevan’s membership in the bloc was de facto frozen, and did not rule out that Armenia could leave the bloc.
There are six CSTO members: Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Belarus.