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Heads of CSTO member states to discuss Uzbekistan's membership in CSTO
19:49, 12 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: CSTO heads of state will gather for
a meeting of the Collective Security Council in Moscow on 19 December
to decide on the development of the organization's military component,
the emergency collective response system and Uzbekistan's
participation in the organization reports Armenpress referring to CSTO
press service.
The agenda of the CSTO Collective Security Council meeting includes
nearly 20 issues. Collective Security Council comprises heads of the
CSTO states -members: Serzh Sargsyan - Armenia's President, Alexander
Lukashenko - Belarus President Nursultan Nazarbayev - President of
Kazakhstan (Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council in 2012),
Almazbek Atambayev - Kyrgyz President, Vladimir Putin - President of
the Russian Federation, Emomali Rahmon - Tajik President, Islam
Karimov - President of Uzbekistan.
CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha is expected to attend the
meeting to update its participants on the status of the organization
and the documents proposed for signing.
The CSC meeting will be held in three stages: in a restricted
attendance format, then with the participation of CSTO Defense
Ministers and as a plenary session.
`The participants of the meeting will discuss the international
situation and measures to improve the collective security system,
development of the CSTO military component through 2020, the main
areas of developing the emergency collective response system,
predictions on the situation in Afghanistan up to 2015, as well as to
consider Uzbekistan's request to suspend its participation in the
CSTO. The CSTO Secretariat received the relevant note from Uzbekistan
in June. The CSTO Secretary General will report on the progress made
in the implementation of the decisions taken up at the CSC meeting in
December 2011 and implementation of the CSTO priority areas under
Kazakhstan's chairmanship in 2012,' Vladimir Zainetdinov said.
Kyrgyzstan that is to preside at the organization next year will
announce the CSTO priority areas for 2013. President of Kyrgyzstan
Almazbek Atambayev is expected to speak on the issue at the plenary
session.
19:49, 12 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: CSTO heads of state will gather for
a meeting of the Collective Security Council in Moscow on 19 December
to decide on the development of the organization's military component,
the emergency collective response system and Uzbekistan's
participation in the organization reports Armenpress referring to CSTO
press service.
The agenda of the CSTO Collective Security Council meeting includes
nearly 20 issues. Collective Security Council comprises heads of the
CSTO states -members: Serzh Sargsyan - Armenia's President, Alexander
Lukashenko - Belarus President Nursultan Nazarbayev - President of
Kazakhstan (Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council in 2012),
Almazbek Atambayev - Kyrgyz President, Vladimir Putin - President of
the Russian Federation, Emomali Rahmon - Tajik President, Islam
Karimov - President of Uzbekistan.
CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha is expected to attend the
meeting to update its participants on the status of the organization
and the documents proposed for signing.
The CSC meeting will be held in three stages: in a restricted
attendance format, then with the participation of CSTO Defense
Ministers and as a plenary session.
`The participants of the meeting will discuss the international
situation and measures to improve the collective security system,
development of the CSTO military component through 2020, the main
areas of developing the emergency collective response system,
predictions on the situation in Afghanistan up to 2015, as well as to
consider Uzbekistan's request to suspend its participation in the
CSTO. The CSTO Secretariat received the relevant note from Uzbekistan
in June. The CSTO Secretary General will report on the progress made
in the implementation of the decisions taken up at the CSC meeting in
December 2011 and implementation of the CSTO priority areas under
Kazakhstan's chairmanship in 2012,' Vladimir Zainetdinov said.
Kyrgyzstan that is to preside at the organization next year will
announce the CSTO priority areas for 2013. President of Kyrgyzstan
Almazbek Atambayev is expected to speak on the issue at the plenary
session.