President of Armenia recalled Biyagov from the post of Permanent Representative to the CSTO
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Armenia recalled Viktor Biyagov from the post of permanent and plenipotentiary representative to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). This should from the decree of the President of the country Vahagn Khachaturian.
Biyagov may be appointed Armenia’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, whose residence is in The Hague, informs Armenpress. Biyagov was appointed to the post of permanent representative to the CSTO in November 2018. Over the years, he was the head of the foreign relations department of the apparatus of the National Assembly of the republic, as well as the first secretary of the Armenian representation in the EU.
On May 22, Prime Minister of the Republic Nikol Pashinyan stated that Armenia could leave the CSTO if the organization itself leaves the republic. Before that, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Mnatsakan Safaryan noted that the Security Council of the republic discussed the withdrawal from the CSTO, but now this is not being discussed.
At the end of 2022, Pashinyan refused to sign the declaration of the CSTO Council and the draft on joint measures to provide assistance to Armenia. The prime minister explained his decision by the fact that the draft was incomplete and does not contain a political assessment of Azerbaijan’s aggressive actions in Nagorno-Karabakh. In January, Armenia refused to conduct CSTO exercises on its territory.
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