CSTO HIGH-LEVEL GROUP TO DISCUSS SETTING UP PEACE-MAKING MECHANISM
ITAR-TASS News Agency
August 21, 2007 Tuesday 8:25 AM EST
Russia
A meeting of the CSTO high-level group will discuss stepping up efforts
in the post-conflict development of Afghanistan and priority areas in
the activities of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation in 2008.
The consultations will be attended by deputy ministers of foreign
affairs, defence and finance as well as secretaries of the security
councils of the Organisation which includes Armenia, Belarus
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
CSTO press secretary Vitaly Strugovets told Itar-Tass that "the meeting
plans to examine a package of documents on normative and organisational
setting-up of a peace-making mechanism within the Organisation".
"Besides, participants will discuss draft proposals on a system of
controlling forces and means of the collective security system, a joint
air defence system and organisation of a common system of training
military personnel". "The meeting will discuss 30 documents on the
whole, and it is necessary to agree fully 15 of them," Strugovets
continued.
"Much attention will be given to discussion of mechanisms for rendering
military and technical aid to CSTO states in case of a committed act of
aggression or of a threat of aggression," the press secretary stated.
"Meeting participants will discuss draft decisions on establishing a
CSTO anti-terrorist committee as well as formation of two coordination
councils – on struggle against illegal immigration and on emergency
situations." "The latter move is very important, since all understand
that it is very difficult single-handed to overcome aftermaths of
industrial disasters or natural calamities," Strugovets emphasised.