No Putin-Pashinyan phone call planned before CSTO summit, Kremlin says

There are no plans to organize a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan before the summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Russia-led security bloc, TASS quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday.

"No, no such plans so far, but the summit is yet to be held," he said. "As far as I know Pashinyan will not come to Minsk. The Armenian side will be represented at another level."

The CSTO summit will be held in Minsk on November 23. Pashinyan said that he would not take part in the CSTO summit during his phone call with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. He expressed the hope that the partners would understand this decision.