The conflict in Ukraine, unleashed by the West against Russia, poses a very serious threat to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, TASS reports.
“If we talk about the Western direction of the CSTO’s activities, of course, the conflict unleashed by the West in Ukraine, the use of the Kyiv regime as an instrument of aggression against Russia poses a very serious threat,” the diplomat said following a meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers (CMFA).
On June 20, the first deputy head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Vladimir Dzhabarov, informed the heads of parliamentary delegations of the CSTO member countries that Russia was going to freeze the participation of its delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
On June 17, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said that Westerners pushed Yerevan to freeze participation in the CSTO. According to the diplomat, Armenia’s full participation in the work of the CSTO meets the aspirations of its people and serves the cause of maintaining peace and stability in Transcaucasia.
At the end of May, the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Andrei Belousov said that the activities of the United States and its allies have a negative impact on the military-political situation in the collective security regions of the CSTO countries.
