The Armenian delegation will not participate in the upcoming meeting of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in Moscow on December 19, the Spokesperson of the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Tsovinar Khachatryan said, XQ informs.

“Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan will not take part in the meeting of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the 16th plenary meeting of the CSTO PA, which will be held in Moscow on December 19. The delegation of the National Assembly will also not participate in the meetings,” Khachatryan said in a statement.

She noted that Simonyan officially notified the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Volodin, on Tuesday.

Simonyan told reporters on November 22 that he would not attend the CSTO meeting in December, calling his participation inappropriate in the current situation. In particular, he stated that the organization “does not fulfill its obligations before Armenia.”