Belarus (bbabo.net), - Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan will not participate in the next meeting of the secretaries of the security councils of the CIS member states, which will be held in Moscow on November 8. This was reported today, November 7, to the state agency “Armenpress” by the press secretary of the administrative head of the Armenian Security Council Tatevik Petrosyan.
“Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan will not go to Moscow and will not take part in the next meeting of the secretaries of the security councils of the CIS member states, which will be held on November 8 in the capital of the Russian Federation, Moscow,” the department informed.
The reasons for this decision are not explained.
Previously, representatives of the highest political leadership of the Transcaucasian republic - members of the CSTO, EAEU and CIS - have repeatedly demonstrated their reluctance to participate in meetings of integration associations in the post-Soviet space, thereby continuing a kind of boycott. Commentators in Yerevan say its reason is the dissatisfaction of the Armenian authorities in connection with the “insufficient” reaction of the CSTO allies to Azerbaijan’s aggression against Armenia in September 2022, as well as attacks against the leadership of the republic in the Russian information field.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan did not go to the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Bishkek. Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan was entrusted with representing the Transcaucasian republic at the meeting of the EAEU Intergovernmental Council on October 26.
Earlier that month, the Armenian leader refrained from participating in a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State in Bishkek on October 13, citing “a number of circumstances” and notifying the host of the Commonwealth summit, President Sadyr Japarov, in advance.
The Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin was summoned to the Republic's Foreign Ministry last month in connection with the program “Dolls of the Heir Tutti. Nikol Pashinyan: a harbinger of trouble,” which was shown on the Russian Channel One. The ambassador was given a note of protest.
Nikol Pashinyan, in an interview with the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal published on October 25, said, in particular, that he does not see any advantages in the continued presence of Russian military bases in the republic.
A week earlier, on October 17, the head of the Armenian government asserted from the rostrum of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, that “Armenia’s security allies publicly called for the overthrow of the democratic government in the republic.” According to him, democracy in Armenia has received and continues to receive “serious blows according to the same scenario.” First comes external aggression, then the inaction of Armenia’s allies, and then attempts to use the military or humanitarian situation to overthrow the government in the country, Pashinyan said.
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