Armenia actively involved in CSTO last year
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, two 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. P.T. –0--
