ARMENIAN PRESIDENT LEAVES FOR KAZAKHSTAN TO PARTICIPATE IN UNOFFICIAL SUMMIT OF HEADS OF CSTO MEMBER STATES
Noyan Tapan
Dec 19, 2008
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian president Serzh
Sargsyan on December 19 left for Kazakhstan in order to participate
in an unofficial summit of heads of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO) member states. According to the RA presidential
press service, the summit with the participation of the presidents of
Armenia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrghyzstan is being held
in the winter resort of Shuchini-Borovy near the city of Kokchetau.
Prior to the beginning of the summit S. Sargsyan had a short meeting
with the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. The sides
expressed a high opinion about the current level of Armenian-Kazakh
relations and the political dialog between the two countries. They
underlined the role of Kazakhstan’s Armenian community in the
strengthening of bilateral friendly links.
S. Sargsyan and N. Nazarbayev attached importance to further
development of economic cooperation, saying that the new routes of the
planned railway communication will help increase the trade turnover.
Then the unofficial summit started its work. Issues related to the
prospects of CSTO’s regulation, cooperation within this organization,
the global financial crisis and the integration processes in the
territory of CIS are on the agenda.