Araz News: Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan is going to turn down the offer to be appointed as the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on Oct 4, 2016.

Earlier, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan had announced about large-scale changes in the state governance area.  He dismissed  Minister of DefenseIn in the wake of public criticisms and low performance in recent war whic was happen in Karabakh region .

Former Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan told the aforementioned to Armenian News – news.am on Friday.

To our question 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. Currently I am the acting minister of defense and am not going to work in any international organization.”

Asked whether he will turn down the offer if one is made, he briefly responded: “Certainly.”

He declined to explain the reasons behind turning down the offer for assuming that post.

To the observation whether he will continue to be part of the 2017-18 government, he said: “Ask those who are forming it.”

By-APA