Pashinyan: Armenia is CSTO member and has no intention to join NATO
11.12.2018,
10:59
Armenia is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and doesn’t seek membership in the NATO, thought it will maintain relations with the alliance, Armenian Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is quoted by TASS as saying Monday at a news conference.
YEREVAN, December 11. /ARKA/. Armenia is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and doesn’t seek membership in the NATO, thought it will maintain relations with the alliance, Armenian Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is quoted by TASS as saying Monday at a news conference.
“We have relations with the NATO, which are connected with peacekeeping missions also in Kosovo and Afghanistan, and we’ll continue this cooperation, but we seek no membership in the NATO,” he said.
Pashinyan said that Armenia is a CSTO member.
“We partners to the Russian Federation and the European Union, but we are not under anybody’s influence,” he said answering a question about Armenia’s foreign policy priorities after the snap parliamentary elections held Sunday in the country.
Earlier, Nikol Pashinyan has repeatedly said that the country has no intention to join the NATO in the future and that it remains stuck to all international arrangements and will remain a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union. -0---
“We have relations with the NATO, which are connected with peacekeeping missions also in Kosovo and Afghanistan, and we’ll continue this cooperation, but we seek no membership in the NATO,” he said.
Pashinyan said that Armenia is a CSTO member.
“We partners to the Russian Federation and the European Union, but we are not under anybody’s influence,” he said answering a question about Armenia’s foreign policy priorities after the snap parliamentary elections held Sunday in the country.
Earlier, Nikol Pashinyan has repeatedly said that the country has no intention to join the NATO in the future and that it remains stuck to all international arrangements and will remain a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union. -0---
