Armenia not considering entry into NATO - PM

YEREVAN. Feb 12 (Interfax) - Armenia is not considering the possibility of becoming a NATO member, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with the Telegraph, the text of which was published on the Armenian government's website.

"As to NATO, this is not an item on our agenda. In other words, we have not and are not discussing NATO membership. We do have partnership relations with NATO, and there is nothing new there. We used to have an Individual Partnership Action Plan, now that program is being reformatted into a certain partnership format that doesn't imply membership," Pashinyan said

"We are at least a de jure member of the CSTO today, and I am not sure if there are discussions on that topic in general, or rather in Armenia, as to how well the alliance-based strategy corresponds to Armenia's interests, in general, in the long term," he said.