SOCHI, Oct 2 Statements from Yerevan about the possibility of leaving the CSTO is a sovereign choice, but Moscow hopes that “no provisional administrations” will destroy ties between Russia and Armenia, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“If, as some leaders of Armenia have announced, they are now, having become disillusioned with Russia and the CSTO, they will look to their colleagues to strengthen their own security, this is his sovereign choice, the choice of the Armenian leadership. But I still hope that the ties that have existed for centuries between the Russian people… and the Armenian people, no interim administrations can destroy them,” he told reporters following a meeting of the Valdai international discussion club.