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    Emil Lazarian
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Armenian defense minister skips CSTO meeting for technical, not political reasons — MP

 TASS 
Russia – May 25 2023
Earlier, Armenian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Aram Torosyan told TASS that the minister did not go to Minsk and did not participate in the meeting of the CSTO defense ministers

YEREVAN, May 25. /TASS/. Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan’s absence from Thursday’s meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) defense ministers in Minsk had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with technical issues, secretary of the parliamentary faction of Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party, Artur Hovhannisyan, told a briefing Thursday.

“Firstly, we spoke at length about relations between the CSTO and Armenia, there is no plan to withdraw from the organization. Suren Papikyan’s non-participation in this event is in no way related to Armenia-CSTO relations. I don’t know the details, but I am sure there is no political context here, these are some technical issues. It has nothing to do with the CSTO,” he said.

Earlier, Armenian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Aram Torosyan told TASS that the minister did not go to Minsk and did not participate in the meeting of the CSTO defense ministers.

https://tass.com/world/1622937

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS