BELARUS-ARMENIAN INTERACTION IN CSTO TO BE DISCUSSED IN MINSK

Interfax
March 16 2009
Russia

Cooperation between Belarus and Armenia in tackling international
regional security issues and in dealing with present-day threats is
to be discussed during Armenian National Security Council Secretary
Artur Bagdasarian’s visit to Minsk, the Belarusian Security Council
informed Interfax on Monday.

"Talks with Belarusian Security Council State Secretary Yury Zhadobin
on March 17 will center on the two countries’ cooperation in dealing
with present-day challenges and threats to security, with international
terrorism, organized trans-border crime, drug trafficking, illicit
migration and trafficking in humans," the Belarusian Security
Council said.

Given Armenia’s current presidency of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO), the talks will also touch upon "further
integration processes in the CSTO, ways to deepen military-political
cooperation and to strengthen the potential of countering modern
threats and challenges, and military and military technical
cooperation," the Security Council said.