S. CAUCASUS PROBLEMS CAN BE RESOLVE ONLY THROUGH COOPERATIVE EFFORTS – ARMENIAN OFFIICAL

Interfax
Nov 24 2009
Russia

Problems in the South Caucasus can be resolved only through joint
efforts of all the region’s countries, Armenian National Security
Council Secretary Artur Bagdasarian said.

"Regional processes pose problems, the resolution of which requires
consolidated efforts of all countries in the region. The consolidation
of these efforts is possible only on condition of mutual confidence
between the region’s countries and open and committed dialogue,"
Bagdasarian said at a roundtable conference dealing with the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as a factor of stability and
security in the Caucasus region in Yerevan.

The CSTO is an important factor of comprehensive security and stability
in the Caucasus, he said.

"Programs on combating trans-frontier organized crime, drug
trafficking, a terrorist threat, and illegal migration have been
taken and are being pursued within the organization," he said.

CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha said, "Armenia is among the
most active CSTO members. When it held the rotating chairmanship of
the organization, a number of interesting and extremely productive
initiatives and proposals were implemented. It is in that very period
that the CSTO Collective Operational Reaction Force took shape."

Taking part in the roundtable conference are also political analysts,
experts, members of the CSTO Institute, the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe, the European Union, and NATO.