YEREVAN, March 10. /TASS/. Armenia has notified the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) of its refusal to use its quota to appoint a CSTO deputy secretary-general.

"We submitted a corresponding proposal to the CSTO," the Armenpress news agency quotes Foreign Ministry spokesman Vahan Hunanyan as saying.

The CSTO secretary general has three deputies.

On January 20, Armenia’s ambassador to Britain, Varuzhan Nersesyan, said that Yerevan was dissatisfied with Russia's reaction to Azerbaijan's actions, because it had hoped for concrete assistance within the framework of the CSTO. However, he noted that Armenia highly appreciated the role of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, who maintain peace and fulfill their mandate.

On January 26, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Yerevan had preferred to make a choice in favor of the EU without bringing to its logical conclusion the work on the track of the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s mission. The Russian Foreign Ministry warned that the appearance of EU representatives in the border regions of Armenia can only exacerbate the existing contradictions and geopolitical confrontation in the region.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on February 18 that Armenia and other CSTO countries continued to work to address Yerevan’s concerns.