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    Emil Lazarian
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No decision on withdrawal from Moscow-led bloc, says senior Armenian lawmaker

TASS, Russia
Nov 22 2023
Armenian Prime Nikol Pashinyan announced earlier that he would not take part in the CSTO summit in Minsk

YEREVAN, November 22. /TASS/. Yerevan is not leaving the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Armenian National Assembly (parliament) President Alen Simonyan told reporters.

"Armenia has not made a decision to withdraw from the CSTO," he said, commenting on Armenian officials’ refusal to participate in CSTO events scheduled to be held in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on November 23.

Armenian Prime Nikol Pashinyan announced earlier that he would not take part in the CSTO summit in Minsk. The country’s foreign and defense ministers also refused to participate in CSTO events. Parliament speaker Alen Simonyan, in turn, said that he would not attend a session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in December. Armenia has also recalled its ambassador to the CSTO and has not appointed a new head of its diplomatic mission.

When commenting on Armenian officials’ refusal to participate in CSTO events in Minsk, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Mosow expected Yerevan to continue working in the organization.

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