{"id":161997,"date":"2025-06-21T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T07:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=161997"},"modified":"2025-06-21T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:24:37","slug":"armenia-must-take-a-sober-look-at-its-security-options-says-russias-deputy-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/161997\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia must take a sober look at its security options, says Russia\u2019s deputy foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Armenia must take a sober look at its security options, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin said in an interview with RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n<p>Pankin confirmed that discussions regarding Yerevan&rsquo;s failure to pay its contributions to the CSTO may begin after Dec. 31, 2025. However, it is still unclear in what direction this discussion will take place.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Armenia, having &lsquo;frozen&rsquo; its membership in the CSTO, must soberly evaluate its security options&mdash;including those in a collective format,&rdquo; Pankin stated, adding that ultimately, the decision will rest with the Armenian authorities.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia must take a sober look at its security options, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin said in an interview with RIA Novosti. Pankin confirmed that discussions regarding Yerevan&rsquo;s failure to pay its contributions to the CSTO may begin after Dec. 31, 2025. However, it is still unclear in what direction this discussion will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":161925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}