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🇦🇲⚡- "It's possible for a country to be removed from the CSTO. I would be delighted if the alliance removed Armenia from the collective treaty agreement. It would free us from the dilemma of leaving or not," - Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia. Note, the CSTO's collective defense clause closely resembles NATO's Article 5, stipulating that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all. However, the alliance did not support Armenia during the 2020 war or the subsequent border clashes with Azerbaijan between 2021, 2022, and 2023, a failure that has fueled growing frustration in Yerevan. Pashinyan in 2021 and 2022 directly requested support, citing the CSTO mutual defense clause, but fell on deaf ears in Moscow, and has even gone as far as accusing Belarus (a CSTO member) of supporting Azerbaijan (a non-CSTO member) against Armenia.