New secretary-general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is expected to be named at the CSTO summit in Yerevan.
Incumbent CSTO Secretary-General Nikolai Bordyuzha told Russia’s Tass news agency last month that the name of the new secretary general of the Organization will be announced at a session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Yerevan on October 14.
“Armenia’s representative will be my successor as the CSTO secretary general, who exactly, I cannot say now… His name will be announced at the upcoming meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council at the presidential level in Yerevan on October 14," he said.
Citing unnamed Armenian government sources, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported in early September that Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan would be appointed as the new CSTO secretary general, replacing Nikolai Bordyuzha, who has been the head of the organization since 2003.
But on September 16, Ohanyan said in an interview with the website news.am that he wouldn't take the job. Asked whether it is true that he will be dismissed from the post of the Defense Minister in October and be appointed as a CSTO Secretary General within the framework of the governmental changes, Ohanyan said: “The changes in the Government can impact anyone. We know what procedures are in place for forming a government and which political and other governmental forces form it. As to my appointment as a CSTO Secretary General, no such offer has [so far] been made”
