CSTO chief describes terror, drugs, organised crime as key threats

By Tigran Liloyan

ITAR-TASS YEREVAN
April 10, 2004

Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation
(CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha believes that “the CSTO should be adapted to
the security problems which the CSTO countries are facing.” “Nowadays
our key problems are terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking,
but not a military threat,” Bordyuzha told a news conference here on
Saturday.

“We propose the CSTO leaders to define the CSTO’s military component
for the next few years and decide whether we are going to move towards
collective forces or rapid reaction units. We are currently working on
this issue,” the secretary general said.

At the same time Bordyuzha regards the activation of the CSTO military
component as an important direction. He said the upgrading process of
the CSTO military component namely the Russian-Armenian military
grouping in the Caucasus, the Russian-Belarus grouping and the
collective rapid deployment forces in Central Asia was in progress.

“We are acting according to a special plan,” Bordyuzha specified.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress