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    Xinhua, China
    Jan 20 2005

    CSTO building up military potential: Secretary General


    MOSCOW, Jan. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- The Collective Security Treaty
    Organization (CSTO) is building up its military potential in
    threatened directions, CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha said
    Thursday at a Federation Council conference focused on the CSTO role
    in international security.

    Among the main modern threats and challenges Bordyuzha spelled
    out international terrorism, illegal turnover of narcotics, illegal
    migration and organized crime.

    The CSTO comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
    Russia and Tajikistan and was set up in 1992.

    Bordyuzha noted the coalition group is being currently created in
    Central Asia and provided with practical measures. "We use the
    experience of the East European group of the Armed Forces of Belarus
    and Russia, as well as the Caucasian group of Russian and Armenian
    troops," he stressed.

    According to him, united military-oriented systems --
    antiaircraft defense, communication and information-intelligence
    support are being set up based on the plan of the coalition military
    building for the period up to 2010.

    Bordyuzha especially noted "a privileged regime" in the CSTO
    military-technical cooperation sphere, saying "supplies of military
    products are carried out at internal Russian prices and without
    levying the value-added tax" in it.

    The conference was attended by Russian parliament members and
    representatives of legislative and executive branches of power of
    CSTO member states.

    Apart from purely defense matters, the CSTO deals with issues
    related to political and foreign policy cooperation on problems that
    may emerge in its member nations and that might be provoked by a
    variety of destabilizing factors, Bordyuzha said.
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