CIS security body leaders sign intelligence, facilities sharing deals

Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency, Almaty
18 Jun 04

Astana, 18 June: A number of documents were signed following a session
of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization [CSTO] in Astana today.

The heads of the CSTO member states, Armenian President Robert
Kocharyan, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Kazakh President
Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev, Russian President
Vladimir Putin and

Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov signed an agreement on the mutual
protection of secret information within the CSTO and an agreement
on effectively equipping their territories and jointly using the
facilities of the CSTO states’ military infrastructures.

The Kazakh presidential service reported this to the
Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency.