MEDVEDEV EXPECTS CSTO SUMMIT TO FINALLY SHAPE POSITION ON CAUCASUS SITUATION
Interfax
Sept 2 2008
Russia
The members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
will forge a final position on the situation in the Caucuses at their
upcoming summit in Moscow, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in Sochi on Tuesday.
Medvedev thanked his Armenian counterpart for Armenia’s humanitarian
support for South Ossetia.
Sargsyan conveyed his condolences over the deaths of Russian
peacekeepers in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. "We regret the
events took this turn," he said.
The CSTO foreign ministers and security secretaries’ councils will
convene in Armenia soon ahead of Armenia’s rotating presidency of
the CSTO, he said.
"Russian-Armenian cooperation potential has been steadily increasing,
but can increase even further given the allied relations," Medvedev
said.