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    MEETING OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY BODY SILENT ON GEORGIA CONFLICT
    by Grace Annan

    World Markets Research Centre
    Global Insight
    September 4, 2008

    Armenia has hosted a brief meeting of the Collective Security Treaty
    Organisation (ODKB) with moderate results. Comprising Armenia,
    Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, the ODBK is
    a military and security alliance of the CIS states. The participants
    of the meeting signed 13 documents, mostly detailing the particulars
    coordinating activities of the army, fire and emergency relief
    agencies; other documents include anti-drug trafficking measures,
    the formation of common information security system and the collective
    plan for the realisation of the UN anti-terrorism strategy.

    Significance:The comments of Armenia's National Security Secretary
    Artur Baghdasarian were notable primarily for the lack of reference to
    the crisis in Georgia, a subject that was undoubtedly central to the
    meeting discussions. In the absence of heads of states, no statements
    could be reasonably expected with regard to recognition or otherwise of
    Georgia's breakaway republics, but ideas were exchanged about responses
    to further potential military actions in the region. ODKB has gradually
    acquired the role of an instrument for the preservation of its members'
    governments, due to the agreement to render mutual assistance in case
    of "popular disturbances", or electoral revolutions. Russia could
    not receive such automatic support in case of its advancement into
    Georgia, but has most likely worked to increase the capacities of the
    organisation, which it would ideally see as a formidable alliance
    bloc similar to NATO. Baghdasarian's hint that "members agreed to
    strengthen the role of the organisation in the resolution of regional
    issues" suggest some progress on the matter.
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