ARMENIA TO ENHANCE CSTO’S EFFICIENCY

ARKA
Sep 3, 2008

YEREVAN, September 3. /ARKA/. As a country to chair the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Armenia will lay emphasis on
enhancing the CSTO’s efficiency, RA President Serge Sargsyan stated
at his meeting with the Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils,
who are in Armenia to take part in a meeting of the CSTO Security
Councils’ Committee.

The RA presidential press service reports that President Sargsyan
expressed his satisfaction over the level of cooperation within the
CSTO. He stressed the obvious importance of cooperation in dealing
with such security problems as possible aggression, illegal migration,
corruption control, which, according to him, deny any formal approach.

Speaking of the recent events in South Ossetia, President Sargsyan
said that the events proved the danger of coercive methods of solving
interethnic conflicts in the South Caucasus. The RA President expressed
the confidence that any attempts to settle conflicts by force are
doomed to failure, and "the events in South Ossetia will have a
sobering effect on those having such illusions, consolidating their
military and making militaristic statements." "In the South Caucasus
any attempts to force solutions on nations are pregnant with serious
military and geopolitical consequences," President Sargsyan said.

The participants in the meeting pointed out its effectiveness as they
discuss ed the trends in the CSTO zone and neighboring regions, threats
to collective security and the current situation in the Caucasus. On
September 5, Armenia is to take over the CSTO chairmanship. P.T. -0–