Moscow CSTO summit tests Russia’s hold as Armenia keeps bloc participation frozen
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President Vladimir Putin chairs the Collective Security Council of the CSTO in Moscow on Wednesday as the alliance’s influence weakens. Since February 2024 Armenia has frozen its participation, effectively boycotting the Russia-led bloc after its war with Azerbaijan and blaming it for failing to offer meaningful support; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last week that Yerevan de facto does not join CSTO operations. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on 5 November that Armenia’s interest in the CSTO has run its course. In the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, neither Russia nor Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sent troops to aid Armenia despite the charter’s mutual-aid provision.
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