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FOREIGN MINISTRY FRATERNITY: RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PREPARED A SUMMIT OF CSTO MEMBER STATES
by Nadezhda Sorokina
WPS Agency
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
September 8, 2008 Monday
Russia
CSTO WILL JOIN PROVISION OF EUROPEAN SECURITY; Foreign ministers
of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan
and Uzbekistan discussed the situation that was a result of the
aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia. What was most important,
the ministers paid much attention to preparation of the collective
security council. They approved draft documents aimed at collective
participation of member states of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO) in implementation of a global antiterrorist
strategy of the UN regarding more active anti-drug operations. They
also approved an important plan of consultations about issues of
foreign policy, security and defense.
Foreign ministers of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan discussed the situation that was a result
of aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia.
What was the most important, the ministers paid much attention to
preparation of the collective security council. They approved draft
documents aimed at collective participation of member states of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in implementation of a
global antiterrorist strategy of the UN regarding more active anti-drug
operations. They also approved an important plan of consultations
about the issues of foreign policy, security and defense.
Lavrov reported that CSTO member states reached an agreement on
coordinated actions on international arena in accordance with the
statement of the organization about South Ossetia adopted in Moscow.
Russia already expressed satisfaction with this statement. Lavrov said,
"it will be a common stance of the CSTO member states and henceforth
our ambassadors will act from the positions approved by the ministers."
The main breakthrough was the fact that foreign ministers of the CSTO
countries agreed to start joint work on the agreement on collective
European security. Lavrov stressed, "this is an important decision. We
will start working in a few weeks."
During the meeting in Moscow, foreign ministers of the CSTO countries
also advocated working out a new legally binding agreement by Moscow
and Washington instead of expiring the treaty on strategic offensive
armament. In their statement, the foreign ministers of CSTO countries
emphasized, "we think that such an agreement should include everything
best from the existing treaty on strategic offensive armament and
should simultaneously fix new lower levels of both strategic carriers
(intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-based ballistic
missiles, heavy bombers) and combat charges placed on them that should
be subject to checking."
The ministers also paid attention to combating drug trafficking from
Afghanistan. General Secretary of CSTO, Nikolai Bordyuzha, stated,
"we plan to pool our efforts and to work more actively on the creation
of anti-drug security belts." According to Bordyuzha, in building
anti-drug belts around Afghanistan CSTO is going to closely cooperate
with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Bordyuzha concluded, "we
are also going to develop cooperation in counteraction to synthetic
drugs that come from Europe en masse."
by Nadezhda Sorokina
WPS Agency
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
September 8, 2008 Monday
Russia
CSTO WILL JOIN PROVISION OF EUROPEAN SECURITY; Foreign ministers
of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan
and Uzbekistan discussed the situation that was a result of the
aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia. What was most important,
the ministers paid much attention to preparation of the collective
security council. They approved draft documents aimed at collective
participation of member states of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO) in implementation of a global antiterrorist
strategy of the UN regarding more active anti-drug operations. They
also approved an important plan of consultations about issues of
foreign policy, security and defense.
Foreign ministers of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan discussed the situation that was a result
of aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia.
What was the most important, the ministers paid much attention to
preparation of the collective security council. They approved draft
documents aimed at collective participation of member states of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in implementation of a
global antiterrorist strategy of the UN regarding more active anti-drug
operations. They also approved an important plan of consultations
about the issues of foreign policy, security and defense.
Lavrov reported that CSTO member states reached an agreement on
coordinated actions on international arena in accordance with the
statement of the organization about South Ossetia adopted in Moscow.
Russia already expressed satisfaction with this statement. Lavrov said,
"it will be a common stance of the CSTO member states and henceforth
our ambassadors will act from the positions approved by the ministers."
The main breakthrough was the fact that foreign ministers of the CSTO
countries agreed to start joint work on the agreement on collective
European security. Lavrov stressed, "this is an important decision. We
will start working in a few weeks."
During the meeting in Moscow, foreign ministers of the CSTO countries
also advocated working out a new legally binding agreement by Moscow
and Washington instead of expiring the treaty on strategic offensive
armament. In their statement, the foreign ministers of CSTO countries
emphasized, "we think that such an agreement should include everything
best from the existing treaty on strategic offensive armament and
should simultaneously fix new lower levels of both strategic carriers
(intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-based ballistic
missiles, heavy bombers) and combat charges placed on them that should
be subject to checking."
The ministers also paid attention to combating drug trafficking from
Afghanistan. General Secretary of CSTO, Nikolai Bordyuzha, stated,
"we plan to pool our efforts and to work more actively on the creation
of anti-drug security belts." According to Bordyuzha, in building
anti-drug belts around Afghanistan CSTO is going to closely cooperate
with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Bordyuzha concluded, "we
are also going to develop cooperation in counteraction to synthetic
drugs that come from Europe en masse."