CSTO FOREIGN MINISTERS MAKE STATEMENT ON NECESSITY OF FURTHER MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF OFFENSIVE DISARMAMENT

ArmInfo
2008-09-05 13:18:00

ArmInfo. CSTO Foreign Ministers made a statement on necessity of
further maintenance and development of offensive disarmament, CSTO
Information Department Adviser Vitaly Strugovec told ArmInfo. The
statement says that Foreign Ministers of CSTO signatory-states attach
a great importance to further activation and deepening of partnership
within CSTO to foster global security and strategic stability, jointly
counterpart global challenges including international terrorism and
dissemination of mass destruction weapons.

‘We proceed from the necessity of maintaining and developing the
key offensive disarmament agreements that have been a basis for
maintenance of international stability and security for the last
years’, the statement says.

The ministers believe fulfillment of commitments under Offensive
Disarmament Treaty by the signatory- states as a big step in the way to
nuclear disarmament, a real contribution to implementation of the goals
under Article 6 of the Treaty on non-dissemination of nuclear weapons.

‘We are convinced that achievement of the given agreement would ensure
stability and predictability in the strategic relations of big nuclear
states, would allow more confident actions in full liquidation of
nuclear weapons in the world’, the statement says.