Belarus again expresses hope for a meeting with Armenia over CSTO issue
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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. Belarus has again expressed hope that Armenia will set the date for a meeting with State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council, that country’s candidate for the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas soon, Anatoly Glaz, Press Secretary of the Belarusian foreign ministry said, BelTA reported.
Anatoly Glaz said Stanislav Zas already held meetings with the heads of five member states (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan) who supported his candidacy for the CTSO Secretary General.
Recently Armenia’s foreign ministry commented on the statement of Stanislav Zas, stating that important consultations are being held between the member states, and a solution that will be on a legal base, based on the consensus of all 6 member states and acceptable for all sides, must be found.
On November 2 Armenia’s Yuri Khachaturov was dismissed from the position of the CSTO Secretary General after Armenia applied to the CSTO member states to launch the process of recalling him as criminal case was filed against Khachaturov over the 2008 March 1 unrest in Yerevan. CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov temporarily assumed the duties of the CSTO Secretary General.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has repeatedly stated that there are more important issues in the CSTO to discuss, than that of the Secretary General. “I hope we all understand that the issue of the CSTO Secretary General is not at least the major issue or is not so important. Here much more global and important issues are being discussed. The talk is about our commitments towards the CSTO and vice versa. The position of the Secretary General is secondary in this context”, Pashinyan said.
