RIA Novosti
2005-03-22 11:24
PUTIN SIGNS LAW SETTING TERMS FOR CSTO SECRETARIAT STAYING IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW, March 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin
has signed the federal law On Ratification of the Agreement between
the Government of the Russian Federation and the Collective Security
Treaty Organization concerning the Stay of the Secretariat of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization in the Territory of the
Russian Federation, a Kremlin spokesperson reported.
The law was passed by the State Duma on March 9, 2005 and approved
by the Federation Council on March 11, 2005.
The agreement between the Russian government and the CSTO on the
terms of the stay of the CSTO secretariat in Russia was signed in
Moscow on December 19, 2003.
The agreement sets the accommodation and working procedure for the CSTO
secretariat in Russia and status of its staff and governs the legal
relations between the secretariat and the federal executive bodies.
Under the agreement, the CSTO secretariat enjoys in Russia the
status of a legal entity that is not entitled to business. The
premises of the CSTO secretariat are inviolable and immune to any
form of administrative or judicial interference, except cases when
the secretariat relinquishes its immunity on its own.
The agreement provides for creating political and legal conditions
for the work of the CSTO secretariat as a most important element
responsible for seamless operation of the whole of CSTO.
The CSTO secretariat is financed from the CSTO budget.
The signatories to the 1992 Collective Security Treaty that was
transformed to the Collective Security Treaty Organization include
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.