Deputy Chepa: Armenia's freezing of CSTO membership is due to pressure from the West. First Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexey Chepa expressed the opinion in a conversation with Lenta.ru.
Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with France 24 that Yerevan had frozen its participation in the CSTO. After this, the secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) reported that they had not received Yereva’s applications for the suspension of membership.