The opposition claims that the policies of the Armenian government contradict the government's 2021-2026 action plan in a number of cases, so the government should resign, and they cite several concrete examples for this. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this in his address during the debates on the Armenian government's 2023 state budget performance, in the National Assembly Thursday.

But already at that moment, the invasion of May 12 was not followed by a proper reaction of the CSTO, in the government's program we very gently had questioned the issue of at least the efficiency of the CSTO," said Pashinyan.

He continued that they later realized that the CSTO, whose duty is to protect the territorial integrity of Armenia, refuses to fulfill its duties.

"At the CSTO summit in Yerevan in November 2022, we had refused to sign the CSTO documents that did not meet the interests of Armenia, and we did it in fulfillment of the government's program. That is, what is the opposition saying now? That we should have meekly signed those papers which did not correspond to the government's program and the interests of our country, which questioned our sovereignty and territorial integrity? And since we didn't do that, we need to resign?" said the Armenian PM.

Pashinyan announced that the next logical step for Armenia will be to leave the CSTO.

"We did not say in the government program that we will remain a CSTO member. We have said we have questions, the answers of which we will go after. We will decide when it happens. Maybe a month, maybe a year," he said.

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13.06.2024 12:18