{"id":311509,"date":"2026-11-09T10:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=311509"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:49:18","slug":"russian-fm-armenia-is-attempting-to-shift-responsibility-for-its-decisions-onto-the-csto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/311509\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian FM: Armenia is attempting to shift responsibility for its decisions onto the CSTO"},"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>Yerevan is once again attempting to shift responsibility for its decisions onto the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/politika\/28296707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pankin noted that despite Armenia having frozen its participation in the CSTO and stopped paying its membership contributions, the country remains a full member of the organization for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are not leaving Yerevan out of our cooperation. We continue to ensure that our partners have the opportunity to join all decisions developed within the organization, which would ultimately be entirely in their own interests. Unfortunately, we see no reciprocal engagement from the Armenian side. Quite the contrary: once again, there are clear attempts to shift responsibility for decisions onto others,&rdquo; Pankin stressed.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister recalled that, under the provisions of the CSTO Charter, &ldquo;a member state may be deprived of its voting rights until it has fully settled its outstanding membership contributions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on expectations for the CSTO summit scheduled to take place in Moscow on November 11, Pankin said that participants also intend to &ldquo;exchange views on pressing issues on the international and regional agendas and identify the key priorities for the further development of allied cooperation within the CSTO.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yerevan is once again attempting to shift responsibility for its decisions onto the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin in an interview with TASS. Pankin noted that despite Armenia having frozen its participation in the CSTO and stopped paying its membership contributions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":311505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311509","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311510,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311509\/revisions\/311510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}