“The CSTO Joint Headquarters is currently developing proposals on the possibility of holding such exercises on the territory of other CSTO member states and clarifying the plan for joint training of command and control bodies and forces and means of the CSTO collective security system for 2023,” the spokesman for the Joint Security Treaty Organization told TASS. CSTO headquarters Vladislav Shchegrikovich.

The Armenian Defense Ministry previously informed the CSTO headquarters about the inappropriateness of conducting exercises on the territory of the state.

As Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated, the mentioned maneuvers on the territory of Armenia this year will not take place.

In November, it was reported that the Emergencies Ministry of Russia and Belarus were planning to conduct exercises within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in 2023.