# Kremlin: Armenia can leave CSTO if it no longer needs membership

https://mins.news/en/item/30428

- TASS, 2026-08-24 10:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2176931

> Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Armenia is free to leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization if Yerevan no longer considers membership necessary for its national interests. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had said he would welcome the country’s expulsion from the bloc.

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