Official slams CIS leaders’ lack of will regarding security efforts

ITAR-TASS news agency
28 Dec 04

Moscow, 28 December: The political leaders of a number of CIS
countries and the structures subordinate to them are only giving a
“semblance of activity” within the framework of the CIS, Collective
Security Treaty Organization [CSTO] Secretary-General Nikolay
Bordyuzha believes.

“The will of the heads of CIS states is needed for concrete activity
to develop. If they themselves have doubts, then as a rule, the
structures subordinate to them give only a semblance of activity,” he
said at a news conference at the ITAR-TASS offices today.

As confirmation of his words, Bordyuzha cited the fact that “most
decisions taken within the framework of the CIS are initialled only by
representatives of the statutory bodies of CSTO states” (a regional
organization comprising Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia, Tajikistan). However, he added, representatives of Azerbaijan,
Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, as a rule, refrain from participating in
the adoption of specific decisions, including those relating to the
defence and security of the CIS.