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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said peace was the only reliable guarantee of his country’s security. He made the remarks during a speech at the Institute of International and European Affairs, a foreign policy research center in Dublin. AnewZ, citing Armenia’s state news agency Armenpress, reported that Pashinyan also said the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) had failed to meet its obligations to Yerevan.
“In our view, there can be only one reliable guarantee of security: peace,” Pashinyan said.
The prime minister said his government was working to consolidate the peace agreement reached with Azerbaijan at a summit hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump in August 2025. “That is why we are now focused on peace with Azerbaijan, so that we can further strengthen the peace already achieved and put it within an institutional framework,” Pashinyan said.
Pashinyan says CSTO failed to meet its obligations
Pashinyan said the CSTO had not fulfilled its security obligations during Azerbaijan’s military operation in Garabagh in 2022. “That meant our understanding of the security provided by the CSTO had collapsed,” he said.
Armenia formally froze its participation in the organization in 2024 and has not paid membership fees since then. On Wednesday, November 11, Armenia’s voting rights in the CSTO were suspended because it had not paid its dues for more than two years.
CSTO Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov said the decision did not mean Armenia’s membership in the organization had been terminated. “Armenia’s voting rights can be restored as soon as it decides to pay its membership fees,” Masadykov said.
The CSTO was established in 2002 on the basis of a collective security treaty signed in 1992 by former Soviet states. Its members are Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia.
Pashinyan says he will make three trips to Russia in December
Speaking in Dublin, Pashinyan said he had no intention of weakening ties with Russia and announced plans to travel there three times in December for talks. According to Armenpress, he said he had visited the European Union three times and would make three trips to Russia in December.
“Our goal is not to damage our relations with Russia. We do not want to create problems for Russia,” Pashinyan added.
