YEREVAN, June 12. /TASS/. Yerevan will withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), but the timeframe for the withdrawal has not been defined yet, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told lawmakers.

"The blame for everything lies with those who established this alliance, whose members planned a war against us with Azerbaijan," he said.

When an opposition lawmaker suggested that Armenia should withdraw from the alliance, Pashinyan replied: "We will withdraw, are you trying to scare me with this? We’ve got everything covered; we will decide when we will withdraw. What do you think, what the next step would be, will we be able to come back? Don’t you worry.".

Foreign Minister denies PM Pashinyan said Armenia is to withdraw from CSTO

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan did not say that Armenia will withdraw from the CSTO, he said that the Armenian authorities will decide when to withdraw from the organization on their own, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said during a hearing in the parliament.

"The meeting is being recorded, we can check who said what. The Prime Minister of Armenia did not say that we withdraw from the CSTO, the Prime Minister of Armenia said that we will independently decide when to withdraw, but we will not come back," Mirzoyan said.