{"id":312946,"date":"2026-11-12T19:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=312946"},"modified":"2026-11-13T12:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:51:24","slug":"the-csto-has-closed-its-doors-to-armenia-but-not-entirely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/312946\/","title":{"rendered":"The CSTO has closed its doors to Armenia \u2014 but not entirely"},"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>Recent developments surrounding the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) raise questions about Armenia&rsquo;s changing role in both organizations.<\/p>\n<p>A decision adopted in Moscow on November 11 established a new framework for Armenia&rsquo;s participation in the EAEU&rsquo;s governing bodies. Under the new arrangement, Yerevan will no longer be able to nominate candidates for key positions within the organization. This marks another step towards limiting Armenia&rsquo;s participation in the EAEU. The decision is reportedly based on member states&rsquo; long-standing arrears in membership contributions and their failure to participate in the organization&rsquo;s activities.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video_container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#1344;&#1329;&#1354;&#1343;-&#1384; &#1411;&#1377;&#1391;&#1381;&#1409; &#1380;&#1404;&#1398;&#1381;&#1408;&#1384;, &#1378;&#1377;&#1397;&#1409; &#1400;&#1401; &#1377;&#1396;&#1378;&#1400;&#1394;&#1403;&#1400;&#1410;&#1385;&#1397;&#1377;&#1396;&#1378;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wi5PGqt0-O8?start=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent developments surrounding the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) raise questions about Armenia&rsquo;s changing role in both organizations. A decision adopted in Moscow on November 11 established a new framework for Armenia&rsquo;s participation in the EAEU&rsquo;s governing bodies. Under the new arrangement, Yerevan will no longer be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":312788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,101,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-economy","category-reports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312946","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=312946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312948,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312946\/revisions\/312948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}