ISTANBUL

Armenia will withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday. 

“We will leave (the CSTO), are you scaring me with this? Everything is fine with us, we will decide when we leave. What do you think is the next step, can we go back? Don’t worry,” Pashinyan said in response to a question by an opposition lawmaker in parliament.

​​​​​​​The CSTO alliance, formed in 2002, consists of six post-Soviet states -- Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.