Wednesday, January 30 2019 16:24

ArmInfo. The issue of  approving the candidacy of the CSTO Secretary General is in the  process of approval. The Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian  Federation Grigory Karasin told reporters on January 30 in Yerevan.

According to him, the process is not easy, but all the CSTO member  states are interested in resolving this issue in such a way as not to  cause damage to the Organization as such, and to avoid negative  precedents. "I think that a solution will be found," said Grigory  Karasin.

To recall, the post of the Secretary General of the CSTO remained  vacant after the recall by Yerevan on 30 October last of his  representative Yuri Khachaturov from the post of general secretary of  the structure.  Armenia, the current chairman of the CSTO, according  to the Russian alphabet under the names of the Organization's member  countries, insists on appointing its representative, since Yury  Khachaturov worked only half of the three years laid down (the term  of office of the Armenian party expires in 2020). President of  Belarus Alexander Lukashenko does not agree with this, in particular,  who offered his representative to the post of CSTO Secretary General,  State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Stanislav Zasy.

On November 8, 2018, the leaders of the CSTO member countries at the  Astana summit failed to reach consensus on the candidacy of a new  secretary general.  The issue was to be considered on December 6 at  the summit of the heads of the CSTO in St. Petersburg, but it was  postponed without specifying the exact date of its holding.