CSTO TALKS IN YEREVAN TO COORDINATE ACTIVITIES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT BODIES

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Monday, April 13, 2009

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)–Interior ministers from member states of
the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization will meet in
Yerevan this week for talks on coordinating the activities of their
law enforcement agencies as part of the military alliance’s newly
established rapid reaction forces, the CSTO press office reported
on Monday.

The interior ministers’ session will be from April 15 to April 17 and
will focus, among other things, on streamlining cooperation between
the different law enforcement bodies of CSTO member states.

The session will coincide with joint training exercises by the special
units of the Russian Interior Ministry and the Armenian Police.

The CSTO was formed in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet
Union. Intended as a regional counterweight to the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, the Russian-led CSTO brings together Russia,
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Earlier in February, the seven-member CSTO decided to establish a rapid
reaction force that would transform the traditionally unorganized
former Soviet alliance into a NATO-like military organization with
a peacekeeping mandate by the United Nations.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress