Armenia’s Prime Minister Pashinyan says unsure about exiting CSTO

On 2026-04-23, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during a briefing in Yerevan that Armenia does not plan to activate its work within the Collective Security Treaty Organization and that no "unfreezing" of participation is expected. He also said he could not say whether Armenia would definitively leave the CSTO, framing the issue as dependent on future circumstances.