Armenia among most active in CSTO

Armenia among most active in CSTO

ITAR-TASS News Agency
June 14, 2005 Tuesday

MOSCOW, June 14 — Nikolai Bordyuzha, the secretary-general of
the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), who arrived in
Yerevan on Tuesday, will inform the Armenian leaders about the state
of affairs in the Organization, Tass learned from the CSTO secretariat.

Armenian President Robert Kocharian will receive Nikolai Bordyuzha.
The CSTO secretary-general will hold talks with Serzh Sarkisian,
the Armenian defence minister and secretary of the Security Council
at the Armenian president,

The sides will discuss questions being referred to the session of
the Collective Security Council, the supreme body of the CSTO, to be
held in the second half of June, and to the meetings of the Foreign
Ministers Council, the Defence Ministers Council and the Security
Councils Secretaries Committee.

Bordyuzha said the other day that “Armenia is one of the most active
participants in the OSCE”, and that the Transcaucasian (Russo-Armenian)
coalition group of forces is “a sizable part of the Organization’s
forces.” Bordyuzha will be on the visit in Armenia for three days.

Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan are
participants in the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS