{"id":45407,"date":"2024-03-16T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T07:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=45407"},"modified":"2024-03-18T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T06:51:46","slug":"zakharova-armenias-possible-exit-from-the-csto-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-countrys-national-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/45407\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakharova: Armenia\u2019s possible exit from the CSTO has nothing to do with the country\u2019s national interests"},"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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Armenia&rsquo;s possible exit from the CSTO should be based on the country&rsquo;s real needs, and not on a &ldquo;love affair&rdquo; with the West; such a decision has nothing to do with the country&rsquo;s national interests. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said this to RIA Novosti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She noted that every country is free to choose which unions it wants to develop relations with, depending on specific reasons and factors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;This should be done considering reality, the real needs of the country, and in no case should the country succumb to another temptation of Western scenarios,&rdquo; Zakharova said, noting that &ldquo;love affair&rdquo; may be dangerous, because security issues should be considered in this case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zakharova said she does not know why politicians in Yerevan &ldquo;have been imposing the notion of the negative role of the CSTO on the people of Armenia&rdquo;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;I think it has nothing to do with the true national interests of Armenia,&rdquo; Zakharova said, accusing Brussels of turning the people of Armenia against the CSTO. &ldquo;There has never been anything bad from the CSTO,&rdquo; she noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&rsquo;s possible exit from the CSTO should be based on the country&rsquo;s real needs, and not on a &ldquo;love affair&rdquo; with the West; such a decision has nothing to do with the country&rsquo;s national interests. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said this to RIA Novosti. She noted that every country is free to choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45407","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}