ArmInfo. At the latest Collective Security Treaty Organization Summit in Yerevan, election of the CSTO Secretary General was postponed, as President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev was absent from the event due to health problems. CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha made such statement on Russia-24 TV, on October 19.
"It is necessary to settle the issue with participation of all presidents. We agreed to meet in December and then the final decision will be adopted by the full staff of the Collective Security Council," Bordyuzha said.
He confirmed that rotation at the Organization will take place, as there is a decision by the presidents concerning the rotation system of the secretary general and all the officials.
On October 14, Serzh Sargsyan said at the CSTO Collective Security Council's session in Yerevan that the issue of the CSTO Secretary General was removed from the agenda. He added that the heads of the CSTO member states will consider that issue at a meeting in Russia in late 2016.
To note, earlier it was decided to make the CSTO Secretary General's mandate rotating - once every three years in the alphabetical order. In Yerevan, the participants were to name the Secretary General from Armenia. Several names were circulating in the media, but a month ago Serzh Sargsyan told his cronies that there would be no rotation and that the Secretary General from Russia meets Armenia's interests.