ITAR-TASS
June 23 2005
Putin says presidents satisfied with CIS security organization’s
summit
Moscow, 23 June: Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that
all six presidents of the members states of the CSTO (Collective
Security Treaty Organization uniting Russia, Belarus, Armenia,
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan) are satisfied with the
results of today’s summit.
“As always, openly and in a business-like manner, we discussed the
most important issues of multilateral cooperation and reached a
number of practical agreements of principle,” the head of Russian
state told a news conference following the summit.
Putin said that by the end of the session, the sides signed, among
other documents, an agreement on training military personnel. “I am
convinced that (it) has in many ways a defining significance for our
cooperation,” the Russian leader noted. In his view, “the decision to
set up an inter-state commission for military-economic cooperation
serves as a stimulus for closer cooperation of our (CSTO countries’)
military-industrial complexes”.