CSTO Secretariat does not yet have information on accusations of Armenian authorities against Yuri Khachaturov
ArmInfo. The CSTO Secretariat does not yet have information on accusations of the Armenian authorities against Yuri Khachaturov. The press secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
told Tass.
"As it was previously reported, in July the CSTO Secretary General
Yuri Khachaturov left for Yerevan to testify as a witness on the
events of May 1-2, 2008. The CSTO secretariat does not have any other
information," the source said. Meanwhile, Armenia's Special
Investigative Service (CAS) charged the CSTO Secretary General,
Colonel-General Yuri Khachaturov, in overthrowing the constitutional
order in 2008 and appealed to the court to choose arrest as a
preventive measure. The investigators do not specify the role of
Khachaturov in the events of 2008, but it is known that on March 1,
2008 Khachaturov commanded the Yerevan garrison of the Armenian Armed
Forces. Since 2017, he is the Secretary General of the CSTO. As his
lawyer Mihran Poghosyan stated in a conversation with journalists,
the Special Investigation Service of Armenia did not explain Yuri
Khachaturov the nature and grounds of the charges brought to him. "He
does not understand what he is accused of," Poghosyan said,
Khachaturov himself stated that he does not agree with the charge
brought against him.
In the same court - in the court of first instance of the Shengavit
district of Yerevan, at the moment, the application submitted by the
Special Investigation Service of Armenia for the election of a
preventive measure in the form of custody with regard to the second
President Robert Kocharian is being considered.