CSTO is looking for a new place for exercises
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The Joint Headquarters of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), after Armenia’s refusal to host the next exercises of the alliance’s peacekeeping forces, plans to hold them on the territory of another state. This was announced on January 11 by the press secretary of the headquarters of the organization Vladislav Shchegrikovich. On January 10, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated at a press conference that the country would not host the exercises of the CSTO peacekeeping forces “Indestructible Brotherhood – 2023”. The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said in connection with Pashinyan’s decision that “in any case, Armenia is our very close ally. We will continue the dialogue, including those issues that are now very complex.”
Moreover, Pashinyan proposed on January 10 to replace Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh with a UN contingent after the expiration of the Russian mandate in 2025. At the same time, he agrees to sign the Russian draft settlement of the Karabakh conflict, the details of which were not disclosed by the parties. Since the autumn of 2022, Azerbaijan and Armenia have declared their desire to sign a peace treaty by the end of 2022, but this has not happened so far.
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