SECURITY TREATY MILITARY COMPONENT TO BE BEEFED UP, SAYS BELARUSIAN DEFENCE
MINISTER
Interfax-AVN military news agency web site, Moscow
24 Jun 04
MINSK
The military component of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
(CSTO) will be enhanced, Belarusian Defence Minister Leonid Maltsev
told Interfax referring to the recent CSTO summit in Astana.
“The CSTO was meant to be a workable tool in the provision of regional
and global security,” he said.
Maltsev said that the CSTO combined air defence system would become a
single entity.
The CSTO is made up of Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Armenia and Tajikistan.