Foreign policy & security

Pankin: Armenia is trying to shift responsibility onto the CSTO

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Photo: G20 Argentina / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, cropped

In an interview with TASS, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin said that Yerevan is trying to shift responsibility for its decisions onto CSTO member states. Pankin noted that although Armenia has frozen its participation in the CSTO and does not pay its membership fees, it remains a full member of the organization. According to Pankin, Moscow leaves Yerevan the opportunity to join decisions but sees no reciprocal steps.

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First to report: 24news.am08:33Opposition

Pro-government 3 / 6 First: FreeNews, 4 h 2 min later
Balanced 5 / 14 First: Mamul.am, 45 min later
Opposition 13 / 21 First: 24news.am, 08:33

Foreign outlets: 2, first: TASS, 02:57

Timeline as a list
  1. TASS (Foreign)
  2. 24news.am (Opposition)
  3. Mediahub (Opposition)
  4. Yerevan.Today (Opposition)
  5. Tert.am (Opposition)
  6. Politik.am (Opposition)
  7. 168 Zham (Opposition)
  8. Mamul.am (Balanced)
  9. Sputnik Armenia (Foreign)
  10. Yerkir Media (Opposition)
  11. Armlur / Joghovurd (Opposition)
  12. Alphanews.am (Opposition)
  13. News.am (Opposition)
  14. Azatutyun (RFE/RL) (Balanced)
  15. Azg (Opposition)
  16. Iravunk (Opposition)
  17. Aravot (Balanced)
  18. Infocom (Balanced)
  19. Livenews.am (Opposition)
  20. Factor (Balanced)
  21. FreeNews (Pro-government)
  22. Haykakan Zhamanak (Armtimes) (Pro-government)
  23. Civic.am (Pro-government)

All sources

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