Pan Armenian News
CSTO TO COOPERATE WITH NATO
15.09.2005 05:58
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov stated September 14
that according to an arrangement first contacts between the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which comprises Armenia, Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, and the NATO will take place.
In the course of an unofficial meeting in Berlin the Russian MOD head had
with his counterparts representing NATO member states S. Ivanov noted that
before the end of the year a meeting of CSTO top officials with their NATO
colleagues will be held in Brussels. `Someone might dislike the CSTO or an
individual member state of the Treaty, however any action against drug
trafficking from Afghanistan is impossible without CSTO member states,’ S.
Ivanov stated, adding that Russia has presented a number of proposals,
including closer cooperation between the NATO and CSTO member states,
reported Interfax.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress