Kremlin expects Pashinyan to attend CIS, EAEU summits in St.  Petersburg

ArmInfo.Assistant to the Russian President Yuri Ushakov expects that Armenian Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan will attend the CIS and EAEU summits in St.  Petersburg in December.

"I believe that (representatives of Armenia, TASS note) will come to  St. Petersburg, where the traditional informal  meeting of the  leaders of the CIS countrieswill take place and also the formal  meeting of the EAEU, by the way, at this meeting meeting the  chairmanship [of EAEU] will pass from us to Armenia so I think that  [Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol] Pashinyan will arrive to take the  chairmanship from [Russian President] Vladimir Putin," a Kremlin  representative told reporters, TASS reports.  Armenian  representatives did not participate in the CSTO session held in Minsk  on Thursday. When asked whether this was a demonstrative step towards  Yerevan's withdrawal from the organization, Ushakov said:  "This  means that they did not come to the meeting today and practically did  not participate in its preparation."

Representatives of Armenia also did not participate in the meetings  preceding the session of the CSTO Council, with the participation of  the ministers of foreign affairs and defense and the secretaries of  the Security Council of the CSTO countries.

The St. Petersburg summits will take place at the end of this year.  As Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov has already reported,  Pashinyan has been invited to both events.