Uzbekistan Has No Plans To Quit CSTO – Secretary General

UZBEKISTAN HAS NO PLANS TO QUIT CSTO – SECRETARY GENERAL

RIA Novosti
April 16, 2009
YEREVAN

The Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
(CSTO) dismissed reports on Thursday that Uzbekistan was going to
pull out of the post-Soviet regional security group.

There are no grounds to say that Uzbekistan will quit the CSTO,"
Nikolai Bordyuzha said at a meeting of CSTO foreign ministers in
Yerevan. "I don’t see any reasons for it."

Uzbekistan refused to send a high-ranking diplomat to the meeting
in Yerevan "on procedural issues." The country had earlier suspended
its membership in the organization.

The CSTO comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
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Uzbekistan has no plans to quit CSTO – secretary general

20:09 | 16/ 04/ 2009

YEREVAN, April 16 (RIA Novosti) – The Secretary General of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) dismissed reports on
Thursday that Uzbekistan was going to pull out of the post-Soviet
regional security group.

There are no grounds to say that Uzbekistan will quit the CSTO,"
Nikolai Bordyuzha said at a meeting of CSTO foreign ministers in
Yerevan. "I don’t see any reasons for it."

Uzbekistan refused to send a high-ranking diplomat to the meeting in
Yerevan "on procedural issues." The country had earlier suspended its
membership in the organization.

The CSTO comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

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