RA PRESIDENT TO LEAVE FOR MINSK ON JUNE 23 TO PARTICIPATE IN SESSION OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION COUNCIL

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 22 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 22, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA President Robert
Kocharian will leave for Minsk on June 23 to participate in the regular
session of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
(CSTO).

The session will follow sittings of the CSTO Foreign Ministers’,
Defence Ministers’ Councils and Security Council Secretaries’
Committee.

As Noyan Tapan was informed by the President’s Press Office, the
session will open by a meeting of a narrow staff of heads of states
during which exchange of opinions will take place concerning the
military-state situations in the zone of responsibility.

Then the plenary sitting will take place in which Foreign Ministers,
Defence Ministers and Security Council Secretaries will participate
joint with heads of member states of the organization.

Primary directions of the CSTO activity will become a subject for
discussion. It is envisaged to adopt a Declaration on the CSTO future
improvement and increase of effeciency of its activity.

A number of documents will be signed during the session which will
widen the normative-legal basis of mutual cooperation of member states
of the organization in the political and military spheres.

The President of Armenia will participate in Minsk as an observer
in work of the interstate council’s sitting of the Eurasian Economic
Community.

The delegation headed by the President of the republic will return
Yerevan on the same day.