“The Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) may discuss the application of Article 25 of the organisation’s Charter to Armenia if it approves the relevant agenda.”
Globalinfo.az reports that CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadikov made the statement to journalists.
“This year, if the agenda is approved on the 10th, the issue will be discussed at a meeting of the Collective Security Council. The decision to suspend participation is Armenia’s own decision. The decision of the leaders of our countries in the Collective Security Council will become known after the meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council,” Masadikov said.
He said Russia had submitted a draft decision on applying Article 25 of the CSTO Charter to Armenia:
“This concerns membership fees and, if one may put it that way, participation in the organisation’s activities — or, more precisely, non-participation for the third year already.”
Article 25 of the CSTO Charter states that “if a member state of the organisation fails to fulfil its obligations to the organisation’s budget for two years, the Council decides to suspend the right of that state’s citizens to be nominated for quota-based positions within the organisation, as well as to deprive it of voting rights in the organisation’s bodies. These restrictions remain in force until the debt is fully repaid.”
Aliyar Khalil
Globalinfo.az
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