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YEREVAN TO HOST CSTO INFORMAL SUMMIT ON AUGUST 20-21
ArmInfo
2010-08-13 13:38:00
ArmInfo. The issue of military assistance to Kyrgyzstan will be
discussed the next week during the upcoming CSTO informal summit in
Yerevan on August 20-21, Kommersant Russian daily reports.
According to the source, leaders of CSTO member-states will gather
here not in full muster. As of August 12, President of Uzbekistan
Islam Karimov was not going to visit Yerevan. Instead, the Belorussian
leader Alexander Lukashenko will arrive. President of Kyrgyzstan Roza
Otunbayeva will also be present at the summit. The six presidents
will discuss the Kyrgyz issue not only in the context of military
assistance. In particular, according to the Kommersant's data, the
heads of states will touch on the issue of using CSTO peacekeeping
forces during crises, in the same way that happened in the south
of Kyrgyzstan.
As Kommersant reports, the Kyrgyz president applied to the allies on
CSTO, just after the beginning of inter-ethnical conflict in Osh and
Jalal-Abad regions (the conflict broke out on June 10), with request
to assist the Kyrgyz Army and law machinery in weapon. The request was
admitted to examination. However, as Deputy Secretary of the Security
Council of Kyrgyzstan Vitaliy Orozaliyev told Kommersant yesterday,
Bishkek has not yet received the promised military assistance. The
sources of Kommersant in Russia's Foreign Ministry and CSTO Secretariat
confirmed the availability of the request and said that such issues
are solved only after coordination among the Defense Ministries of
all the CSTO member-states (CSTO member-states are: Armenia, Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). "The issue
is under consideration. Its solution is expected in the near future", a
diplomatic source of Kommersant, familiar with the Kyrgyz issue, said.
Meanwhile, Bishkek is still receiving humanitarian assistance from
allies on CSTO. Moreover, an advisory group numbering 50 people
has already been formed. It includes specialists from Russia,
Kazakhstan, Armenia and Tajikistan. They will make an investigation
of international conflicts and will be based in Osh. It is not ruled
that CSTO advisers will start working jointly with OSCE policemen
who will expectedly arrive in early September.
From: A. Papazian
ArmInfo
2010-08-13 13:38:00
ArmInfo. The issue of military assistance to Kyrgyzstan will be
discussed the next week during the upcoming CSTO informal summit in
Yerevan on August 20-21, Kommersant Russian daily reports.
According to the source, leaders of CSTO member-states will gather
here not in full muster. As of August 12, President of Uzbekistan
Islam Karimov was not going to visit Yerevan. Instead, the Belorussian
leader Alexander Lukashenko will arrive. President of Kyrgyzstan Roza
Otunbayeva will also be present at the summit. The six presidents
will discuss the Kyrgyz issue not only in the context of military
assistance. In particular, according to the Kommersant's data, the
heads of states will touch on the issue of using CSTO peacekeeping
forces during crises, in the same way that happened in the south
of Kyrgyzstan.
As Kommersant reports, the Kyrgyz president applied to the allies on
CSTO, just after the beginning of inter-ethnical conflict in Osh and
Jalal-Abad regions (the conflict broke out on June 10), with request
to assist the Kyrgyz Army and law machinery in weapon. The request was
admitted to examination. However, as Deputy Secretary of the Security
Council of Kyrgyzstan Vitaliy Orozaliyev told Kommersant yesterday,
Bishkek has not yet received the promised military assistance. The
sources of Kommersant in Russia's Foreign Ministry and CSTO Secretariat
confirmed the availability of the request and said that such issues
are solved only after coordination among the Defense Ministries of
all the CSTO member-states (CSTO member-states are: Armenia, Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). "The issue
is under consideration. Its solution is expected in the near future", a
diplomatic source of Kommersant, familiar with the Kyrgyz issue, said.
Meanwhile, Bishkek is still receiving humanitarian assistance from
allies on CSTO. Moreover, an advisory group numbering 50 people
has already been formed. It includes specialists from Russia,
Kazakhstan, Armenia and Tajikistan. They will make an investigation
of international conflicts and will be based in Osh. It is not ruled
that CSTO advisers will start working jointly with OSCE policemen
who will expectedly arrive in early September.
From: A. Papazian