The issue of CSTO General Secretary has not been resolved. The reaction of Pashinyan’s spokesperson to Nazarbayev

Official Yerevan continues to insist that the issue of appointing the CSTO General Secretary in St. Petersburg on December 6 has not been resolved. Arman Yeghoyan, acting spokesman of the prime minister, said this today in a conversation with “Azatutyan”, responding to Narzarbayev’s statement that the leaders of the CSTO member states have decided to support the candidacy of Stanislav Zas, the representative of Belarus, for the position of the organization’s new secretary general.

“I reiterate what I said, during the session of the Supreme Economic Council of the EAEU on December 6, the issue of the appointment of the CSTO Secretary General was not resolved and could not be resolved, because the CSTO meeting did not take place. I also reaffirm Armenia’s position that the issue should be resolved through consensus during the official meeting to be held within the framework of the CSTO,” said Arman Yeghoyan.

The position of CSTO General Secretary has been vacant since November 2. Before that, it was occupied by the former chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia Yuri Khachaturov, whom Yerevan recalled early after filing charges in the “March 1” case. If it were not for this development, Khachaturov’s tenure representing Armenia would have ended in May 2020.

After closed-door meetings on December 6, the President of Belarus claimed in a conversation with journalists that the decision had been made, in fact, that the next Secretary General of the CSTO would be from Belarus. After the meeting in St. Petersburg, the press spokesmen of both the leaders of Armenia and Russia denied Alexander Lukashenko’s statement, claiming that the issue of the Secretary General remains unresolved. Moreover, official Yerevan announces that it has a candidate for the new general secretary, and the issue should be resolved by consensus.