BORDYUZHA: AGREEMENT ON CREATION OF CSTO CRDF TO BE FINALLY PREPARED FOR SIGNING BY PRESIDENTS ON JUNE 14

ArmInfo
2009-06-04 10:53:00

ArmInfo. ‘I am deeply sure we shall return to the issue of creation of
CSTO Collective Rapid Deployment Forces and will finally prepare an
agreement on creation of CRDF for signing by the presidents on June
14, just before the sitting of CSTO Collective Security Council’,
CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha said after the sitting of
CSTO Defense Ministerial Council, CSTO spokesman Vitaly Strugovets
told ArmInfo.

‘Some delay with execution of the agreement on creation of the
Collective Rapid Deployment Forces has been caused by special positions
of Uzbekistan and Armenia. The Ministerial Council has discussed a
package of documents which creates legal bases of CRDF activity. There
are some discrepancies among CSTO states and Uzbekistan regarding
the issues of CRDF functioning, while Armenia insists on setting
of more specific terms of readiness of these forces’, N. Bordyuzha
said. To recall, the Agreement on creation of CRDF was signed in
Moscow on February 4 upon the results of the meeting of Armenia,
Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Collective forces are created to rebuff the military aggression,
conduct special operations on fight against the international terrorism
and extremism, drug trafficking, as well as eliminate the consequences
of emergency situations.

To note, the chairmanship in CSTO passed from Kyrgyzstan to Armenia
in 2008.