ARMENIA HIGHLY ACTIVE IN CSTO
by Tigran Liloyan

ITAR-TASS News Agency
March 14, 2006 Tuesday 01:30 PM EST

Armenian President Robert Kocharyan discussed the tasks of and
prospects for the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
with its secretary-general Nikolai Bordyuzha in Yerevan on Tuesday.

They also discussed the agenda of the session of the Collective
Security Council due in Minsk in June and the situation in the zone
of responsibility of the CSTO, also in the Transcaucasia.

Bordyuzha is on a working visit in the Armenian capital. He conducted
talks with Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan, and discussed
with Defence Minister, secretary of the Security Council Serge
Sarkisyan matters referred to the meeting of the Committee of
secretaries of the security councils of the CSTO member-countries
beginning on March 22.

“Armenia is a highly active player in the CSTO and a very active
country in the Commonwealth of Independent States,” Bordyzha said.

“We sense this, specifically, from the attitudes or representatives
of the republic during the analysis of questions of daily activity
of the CSTO,” he said. “Many questions accumulated in the format
of the organization’s activity, and they should be discussed with
Armenian leaders, particularly in connection with plans to develop
the organization, to transform it into a multifunctional international
structure,” Bordyuzha said.

Visiting Yerevan, Bordyuzha continues his visits aimed to inform
leaders of the CSTO state about the organization’s activity.

Bordyuzha visited Kyrgyzstan in February and Belarus and Tajikistan
in early March.