Armenia to enhance csto’s efficiency

YEREVAN, September 3. /ARKA/. As a country to chair the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Armenia will lay emphasis on enhancing the CSTO’s efficiency, RA President Serge Sargsyan stated at his meeting with the Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils, who are in Armenia to take part in a meeting of the CSTO Security Councils’ Committee.

The RA presidential press service reports that President Sargsyan expressed his satisfaction over the level of cooperation within the CSTO. He stressed the obvious importance of cooperation in dealing with such security problems as possible aggression, illegal migration, corruption control, which, according to him, deny any formal approach.

Speaking of the recent events in South Ossetia, President Sargsyan said that the events proved the danger of coercive methods of solving interethnic conflicts in the South Caucasus. The RA President expressed the confidence that any attempts to settle conflicts by force are doomed to failure, and “the events in South Ossetia will have a sobering effect on those having such illusions, consolidating their military and making militaristic statements.” “In the South Caucasus any attempts to force solutions on nations are pregnant with serious military and geopolitical consequences,” President Sargsyan said.

The participants in the meeting pointed out its effectiveness as they discussed the trends in the CSTO zone and neighboring regions, threats to collective security and the current situation in the Caucasus. On September 5, Armenia is to take over the CSTO chairmanship. P.T. –0--