Arkady Dubnov: “Armenia chairs in CSTO … I sympathize”

Armenia is currently chaired in the organization of the Collective Security Treaty, and therefore the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, according to his temporary, during the year, the status, announced the dispatch of the CSTO Mission to Kazakhstan. The Russian political scientist Arkady Dubnov told the “New Gazeta”, answering the question why the words about sending the Mission of the CSTO to Kazakhstan were given to say Pashinyan.

“Armenia is chaired now in the CSTO … I sympathize. Before Armenia asked for help, consultations conducted Rahmon (in May 2021, Pashinyan appealed to the then Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon in connection with the situation on the border With Azerbaijan). Then it was also fun to watch how Rahmon coordinates the ADCB answer. And now it happened very successfully for Moscow, again, not her voice … “,” says Dubnov.

To the question, whether Pashinian does not feel sorry for him in this situation, because the Armenian Prime Minister in 2018 came to power in the wave of people’s protests, the Russian political scientist said that he had no personal relationship with Pashinyan, and besides, “the situation, The pretended earlier in Armenia and served as a reason for appealing to the CSTO, it is fundamentally different from the situation in Kazakhstan. “