Meeting between Pashinyan and Belarusian candidate for CSTO Secretary general not Planned: Arman Yeghoyan

• 12.21.2018, 18:06
•  Region,  Armenia

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A meeting between Armenia’s caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Belarusian candidate for CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zaas is not planned. Nikol Pashinyan’s spokesperson Arman Yeghoyan has informed about this ARMENPRESS.

“A meeting with Nikol Pashinyan is not planned. If no meeting has taken place so far then there has not been a need for it,” he has mentioned.

Zaas, the State Secretary of Security Council of Belarus, has expressed hope after the meeting with the President Alexander Lukashenko that he will be appointed as Secretary General of the CSTO, which Armenia is a member of, through consensus. He says that the leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Russia, members of CSTO, have approved his candidacy. He has infomred that he has visited the four countries and met with the presidents.

Asked whether a meeting with the Armenian leadership is planned, Zaas replied: “I am ready to meet with the prime minister of Armenia, the minister of foreign affairs, and the defense minister any time convenient for them to discuss issues and problems they see related with the organization and continue working taking into account these matters.”