Pan Armenian News

CSTO ADVANCED PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM AGAINST DRUGS

11.05.2005 06:11

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In addition to the Partnership for Peace NATO Program
Russia and other post-soviet states serving on the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (Armenia, Belarus, Kyrghystan, Kazakhstan and
Tajikistan) have advanced a partnership program against drugs, Kreml.org
reported. During the OSCE Forum held in Vienna today CSTO Secretary General
Nikolay Bordyuzha addressed the NATO member-states with an appeal to join
`Channel’ complex prophylactic operation for blocking the routes and
preventing contraband of drugs. The drug traffic is a universal threat and
nobody should remain indifferent to the problem. To make the activities more
efficient the CSTO Coordination Council of the Heads of Counter-Drug
Structures was formed under the CSTO Secretariat’, the CSTO Secretary
General stated adding that the Organization has already adopted the plan of
measures and initiated a number of practical steps. He also noted that
during the `Channel’ operations carried out in 2003 and 2004 over 8 tons of
drugs were confiscated, over 4000 crimes revealed as well as several
hundreds of weapons and explosive assemblies seized. `Several months ago we
proposed NATO to joint the operations. However we got no response’, Nikolay
Bordyuzha said. `The CSTO is ready for close cooperation with the
international organizations to secure peace and stability in the world’, he
stressed.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress