Tajik, CIS security officials to look at cooperation

Tajik, CIS security officials to look at cooperation

Avesta web site
20 Dec 04

Dushanbe, 20 December: A group of secretariat staff of the Collective
Security Treaty Organization [CSTO] led by deputy secretary-general
of the organization Toktasyn Buzubayev, who arrived in Tajikistan
yesterday, will discuss cooperation issues within the organization,
a source at the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs has told Avesta.

Buzubayev will meet Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov, Defence
Minister Sherali Khayrulloyev, Secretary of the Security Council
Amirqul Azimov and the director of the Drug Control Agency, Rustam
Nazarov, as part of the visit which is to end on 22 December, the
source said.

During the meetings, they are expected to discuss regional issues, the
joint fight against drugs and terrorism, as well as the forthcoming
CSTO exercises, which are to be held in Tajikistan in the first six
months of 2005.

We recall that the CSTO members are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.