Aysor, Armenia
March 26 2010

Edward Nalbandian participates in CSTO ministerial meeting

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian participated Thursday in
the CSTO ministerial meeting.

Ministers of the CSTO states gathered on March 25 in Moscow for an
informal meeting to discuss issues related to organisation’s
activities and joint programs, situation in Afghanistan and necessity
of the stability-making efforts.

Edward Nalbandian spoke to the meeting; he stressed the growing weight
of the organisation on the world stage, referring to the recently
signed agreements between Secretaries-General Ban Ki-moon of the
United Nations and Nikolai Bordyuzha of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization.

`Armenia considers Russian side’s initiative to be an important and
topical,’ said Armenia’s Foreign Minister, referring to the design of
the agreement on the European security. `The agreement should contain
the principle of indivisibility of security and international law as
well as it should include an exclusion of subordination of one
principle to another.’

FMs of the SCTO-states adopted a range of statements in relation to
the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, joint efforts on
designing the Treaty on European Security, support of Kazakhstan’s
initiatives, and the upcoming conference on proliferation of nuclear
weapons.