Armenia proposed to partner states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization to start the process of replacing the Secretary General. RA MFA press secretary Tigran Balayan informed about it.

“This is a strictly internal legal process, and an RA citizen is involved in the framework of the criminal case being investigated in Armenia. “Taking into account that it concerns the case of the person currently holding the position of CSTO Secretary General, and giving great importance to ensuring the organization’s authority and uninterrupted normal work, Armenia suggested to the CSTO partner states to start the process of replacing the Secretary General,” he told “Armenpress”.

According to Balayan, Armenia is strongly committed to strengthening and strengthening the CSTO and will continue to be actively involved in joint work in that direction.

Let’s remind that CSTO General Secretary Yuri Khachaturov, who is accused in the “March 1 case” under part 1 of Article 301.1 of the RA Criminal Code for subverting the constitutional order in 2008 with prior agreement with other persons, was released after paying a bail of 5 million drams.

Earlier, we informed that charges were officially brought against the second president Robert Kocharyan, during the bloody events of 2008, Mikael Harutyunyan, the Minister of Defense during the bloody events of 2008, and Yuri Khachaturov, the head of the Yerevan garrison of the Ministry of Defense at that time, who is now the general secretary of the CSTO. Kocharyan was arrested on the night of July 27 by the court’s decision, and Harutyunyan is not in Armenia at the moment, he is wanted.