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    CIS collective security chief upbeat on cooperation with OSCE

    Interfax news agency
    10 May 05

    MOSCOW

    The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is ready to
    cooperate closely with all interested international organizations and
    countries in the interests of ensuring security and stability in the
    region and the world, CSTO Secretary-General Nikolay Bordyuzha told
    Interfax-AVN on Tuesday [10 May] before leaving for Vienna to attend
    an OSCE forum on security cooperation due on 11-14 May.

    "We proceed from the fact that the OSCE as a wide-scale pan-European
    mechanism allows all member-countries to be equally involved in
    forming the architecture of European security," Bordyuzha said.

    "Because of its universal nature, the OSCE is the only organization
    that can undertake the task of removing dividing lines on the European
    continent and preventing new ones," Bordyuzha believes.

    "A whole gamut of measures worked out by the OSCE to enhance
    confidence, security and arms control is seen by the CSTO as a special
    security net for harmonizing security interests and ensuring stability
    and predictability in Europe and neighbouring regions," Bordyuzha
    stressed.

    According to Bordyuzha, it is already possible to speak about stable
    contacts between the OSCE and the CSTO, whose representatives are
    regular active participants in events held within the OSCE format.

    "In particular, the CSTO took a very active part in preparing the OSCE
    forum's main document on recent security cooperation: the strategy of
    reacting to threats to security and stability in the 21st century,"
    Bordyuzha said.

    The CSTO secretary-general will be taking part in an OSCE forum on
    security cooperation for the first time ever.

    The forum on security cooperation was set up in accordance with the
    resolutions of the OSCE Helsinki summit in July 1992. The forum was
    endorsed as an integral part of the OSCE and is an autonomous body
    which comprises delegations of all the 55 OSCE member states.

    The main objectives of the forum are to conduct negotiations on arms
    control, disarmament and building confidence and security; to hold
    regular consultations and closely cooperate on the issues of security
    and to continue to reduce the danger of possible new conflicts.

    A package of decisions in the military-political sphere has been
    passed within the framework of the forum, in particular, documents on
    scrapping excessive conventional arms and on increasing control over
    the proliferation of portable air defence missile systems.

    The forum's decisions are politically binding.

    Currently the CSTO has six members, Russia, Belarus, Armenia,
    Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Its main supreme body is the
    Collective Security Council (CSC) which consists of the
    member-countries' heads of state.
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