Interfax, Russia
Feb 12 2010

Armenian president, CSTO head discuss cooperation issues

YEREVAN Feb 12

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO) General Secretary Nikolai Bordyuzha discussed
cooperation prospects at a meeting in Yerevan on Friday.

Sargsyan and Bordyuzha welcomed the agreement to set up the
organization’s Collective Rapid Deployment Force, the Armenian
president’s press service said.

"The parties also stressed the need to maintain the rapid pace of
efforts to form CSTO structures and to update the related contractual
and legal framework in 2010," the press service said.