Armenia has not refused to deploy the mission of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the border with Azerbaijan. Armenian Ambassador to Russia and former Minister of Defense Vagharshak Harutyunyan stated this in a conversation with a TASS reporter.

"None of the CSTO observers refused. The document, which was supposed to be signed in Yerevan as a result of the visit of the CSTO Secretary General and the Chief of the Joint Staff to the region, was not signed because the Armenian side wanted to amend the document. The document is currently being revised," the ambassador noted.

Harutyunyan also denied some statements that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's government is preparing to withdraw the country from CSTO.

"Such approaches or opinions do not correspond to reality in the sense that relations between states are determined by signed agreements, and they were signed back in the 90s. You know very well that there were dozens of meetings and telephone conversations between our leaders. Our Prime Minister stated that there can be no question of leaving the CSTO, but this is not true. On the contrary, we have a deepening of relations, and in this unstable period, our relations are deepening and will deepen. I want to repeat once again that Armenia is a member of the EEU, CSTO, CIS, and all other regional organizations, where Russia is also present. That's why all this can be perceived as statements of people who do not understand our relations," Vagharshak Harutyunyan added.