CSTO LEADERS TO GATHER IN ASTANA

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.12.2008 15:39 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev invited heads
of CSTO member states to Astana to discuss further activities of the
organization, CSTO Deputy Secretary-General Toksatyn Buzubayev told
a news conference today.

"CSTO Secretaries of Security Councils will meet in Yerevan on December
9 and 10 to consider efforts to combat terrorism, extremism, illegal
migration and consequences of emergency situations," he said.

Currently, Armenia holds the rotating presidency in the Collective
Security Treaty Organization which also includes Russia, Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.