BELARUSIAN, ARMENIAN SECURITY SUPREMOS DISCUSS COOPERATION

Belarusian television Channel 1
March 17 2009
Minsk

[Presenter] National security agencies of Belarus and Armenia are
going to expand their cooperation. Talks between State Secretary of the
Security Council of Belarus Yuryy Zhadobin and his Armenian counterpart
[Artur Bagdasaryan] were held first tete-a-tete and then in extended
format in Minsk today. Belarus and Armenia discussed cooperation
between uniformed and law enforcement agencies in countering terrorism,
cross-border crime, drug trafficking, illegal migration and human
trafficking. Armenia is currently presiding in the CSTO [Collective
Security Treaty Organization], hence the development of integration
within the framework of deeper military and political cooperation
was discussed as well. The heads of the national security agencies
signed a cooperation memorandum today.

[Artur Bagdasaryan] We have had very fruitful talks and tackled
around 10 issues to be jointly handled. We have very good experience
in cooperation and during today’s talks we have chalked out several
other specific programmes regarding uniformed agencies, cooperation
within the framework of the CSTO and implementation of joint projects.

[Yuryy Zhadobin] We have very much in common with Armenia. First and
foremost, our countries are members of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization, we share approaches and visions of this organization. We
would like the organization to strengthen its influence in the
post-Soviet countries and on the international arena too. We are
interested in developing and updating our cooperation in military,
technical and law enforcement areas. We would like our cooperation
to meet modern challenges and deal with threats. But our relations
with Armenia have traditionally been friendly.