ARMENIA ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN CSTO LAST YEAR
ARKA
Jan 22, 2009
YEREVAN, January 22. /ARKA/. Armenia was actively involved in the
Collective Security Treaty Organization last year, says a report
prepared by the RA Foreign Office.
Last September Armenia took over CSTO chairmanship.
According to the report, last April the CSTO Intergovernmental
Commission for Military and Technical Cooperation held its 5th meeting
in Yerevan and discussed further expansion of this cooperation between
the CSTO member-states.
Last June-August, the joint command-post exercises Rubezh 2008 were
held in Armenia, which tested the CSTO member-states’ readiness for
collective defense and allowed them to elaborate measures to prevent
aggression against Armenia, says the document.
On September 5, 2008, in Moscow, the CSTO held its regular session and
discussed the cooperation in battling terrorism and drug trafficking
and in military construction, as well as information security problems
in the CSTO member-states.
The session adopted a declaration wherein the CSTO member-states
re-affirmed their common approach to the fundamental international
problems.
As CSTO chairing country, Armenia was consistent in improving the
coordination of foreign policy within the organization. Last year
President Serge Sargsyan participated in two sittings of the CSTO
Council.
As chairing country Armenia also coordinated a number of arrangements.
Specifically, under Armenia’s chairmanship,20two meetings of the
CSTO Foreign Ministers, in New York and in Helsinki, were held. The
Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils and the CSTO Defense
Ministers’ Council held their meetings as well.
On Armenia’s initiative the diplomatic missions of the CSTO
member-states held a number of meetings and consultations, the
report says.