UN GA ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATION WITH CSTO

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03.03.2010 12:26

The UN General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution aimed at
the development of cooperation between the Collective Security Treaty
Organisation (CSTO) and the United Nations. This document co-authors of
which are all CSTO member states (Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) was presented at the UN General
Assembly meeting by Russia’s delegation, ITAR-TASS reports.

The document emphasises "the importance of the strengthening of
the dialogue, cooperation and coordination between the UN system
and CSTO." It also contains an appeal to specialised bodies of the
UN system, "such as the Department for Political Affairs of the UN
Secretariat, UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Counterterrorism Committee
and its Executive Directorate, to cooperate and develop direct contacts
with the CSTO aimed at the attainment of their goals."

Presenting the draft resolution Russian Permanent Representative to
the United Nations Vitaly Churkin noted that since 2004 the CSTO has
the status of observer in the UN General Assembly, and on January 16,
2008 the Agreement on the peacekeeping activity of this organisation
came into force.

"The new resolution will make it possible to really strengthen CSTO-UN
interaction, to expand their mutual abilities to assist the efforts
to ensure peace, security and cooperation on the regional and global
scale," Churkin said. The mechanism of CSTO peacekeeping activity
"can be used in peacekeeping operations, including under the aegis
of the United Nations," he added.