David Stepanyan. There should not be any reasons for concern among our allies, in particular, Russia. In any case, the logic of the development of our allied relations testifies to this, Advisor to the Armenian Prime Minister on foreign policy issues Arsen Kharatyan expressed his opinion to ArmInfo.

In response to journalists' request to comment on the decisions on arresting Robert Kocharyan and Yuri Khachaturov, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated earlier that " As an ally, Russia has always been interested in stability in Armenia. So recent developments are a cause for concern, including from the point of view of normal operations of the CIS organisations, of which Armenia is a participant''.

After the change of power in Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan repeatedly noted that there are no dark corners in the Armenian-Russian relations, we openly and intensively communicate with our Russian counterparts, which is reflected in the frequency of mutual visits, the efforts of the new Government are aimed at ensuring consistency in the development of Armenian-Russian cooperation in a variety of sectors. Consequently, all our agreements with Russia are well known to everyone, there are no secrets, "the Advisor emphasized.

At the same time, according to him, the government is not at all inclined to ignore the fact that in the conditions of cardinal renewal of its membership, it will take some time to establish new communication channels. In the opinion of the Prime Minister's Advisor, this issue will be jointly resolved in the very near future.

In this light, Kharatyan is not inclined to assess the situation related to the Secretary General of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as a scandal or crisis, emphasizing the fundamental point that this process is a domestic issue exclusively.

According to the Advisor's estimation the Armenian government attaches special importance to the development of cooperation within the CSTO framework and to strengthening the Organization as an effective regional structure which is aimed to provide guaranteed security conditions for the development of the member states.

"By focusing on the task of excluding any influence of this process on the activities of the Secretariat, of which we have informed our CSTO partners, as well as the Secretariat itself, we initiated a number of steps, the first of which is the initiative to withdraw the powers of the current Secretary General ", he noted. Kharatyan also expressed confidence in the interest of all the member states of the Organization in the differentiation of internal factors in this issue from external factors, as well as in their support of the algorithm of work proposed by the Armenian government. In this light, according to his estimates, there is a quite legal process through which Armenia and the CSTO are currently passing.