CIS SECURITY CHIEF ARRIVES IN KYRGYZ CAPITAL

ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow
29 Mar 04

Secretary-General of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty
Organization; members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Russia) Nikolay Bordyuzha arrived in Bishkek today to
hold talks with the leadership of Kyrgyzstan, an ITAR-TASS
correspondent has been told at the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry.

He is expected to meet President Askar Akayev, Security Council
Secretary Misir Ashirkulov and the heads of the country’s
power-wielding agencies.

The stepping up of collaboration between the CSTO member states to
ensure security is expected to be discussed during the talks.

Another purpose of the CSTO secretary-general’s visit is to discuss
the agenda of the forthcoming session of the Security Treaty Council
scheduled to be held in Kazakhstan this summer.

It is expected that after Bishkek, Bordyuzha will pay a visit to
Astana.