COMMITTEE OF SECRETARIES OF SECURITY COUNCILS OF CSTO MEMBER STATES SUPPORTS RUSSIAN INITIATIVE OF SIGNING AGREEMENT ON EUROPEAN SECURITY
Noyan Tapan
Dec 12, 2008
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The participants of the December
10 sitting of the Committee of Secretaries of the Security Councils
of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Member States
adopted a statement, in which they confirmed thier support of Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev’s initiative of signing the legally binding
Agreement on European Security. The Secretary of the Security Council
of Russia Nikolay Patrushev said following the Committee’s sitting
held in Yerevan that the Agreement will enable to create a collective
security system in the Euro-Atlantic.
"Based on the necessity to develop this document with the equal
participation of all countries and international organizations
operating in the Euro-Atlantic area, the CSTO member states welcome
the Russian-French initiative on holding a Pan-European summit within
the framework of the OSCE with the involvement of CIS, CSTO, EU and
NATO for discussion of future architecture of security," is said in
the statement adopted at the suggestion of N. Patrushev.
The Secretary-General of CSTO Nikolay Bordyuzha underlined
that it is envisaged extendig the functional tasks of the
organization. "Especially after the August events, we speak about the
consolidation of the organization and the extending of its tasks,"
he said, noting that a lot of sensible, concrete and constructive
proposals on making the organization’s work more active were made
at the sitting, and these proposals will be taken into account and
discussed to be submitted to the presidents for approval.
The Chairman of the Committee of Secretaries of the Security
Councils of CSTO Member States Artur Baghdasarian considered the
results of the sitting as "quite effective". According to him,
the sitting participants took several decisions and examined the
possibility of creating a Center for Coordination of Counteraction
to New Challenges and Threats, first of all, counteraction to drug
trafficking, fight against terrorism, extremism, illegal migration,
as well as issues of information security, border security and customs
control, emergency situations, and the issue of creation of collective
regional anti-terrorist forces and collective rapid response forces.