CSTO chief: situation in Afghanistan will impair after ISAF forces pulled

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said the situation in Afghanistan will deteriorate after the withdrawal of International Security Assistance Forces from the country and warned CSTO member states to be ready for this turn of events.

As Nikolay Bordyuzha noted at Moscow-Yerevan-Astana-Kyiv-Chisinau space bridge, “the situation in Afghanistan could alter for the worse, so we must be ready to neutralize additional problems which may occur in the process.”

The Secretary General further welcomed the proposal of Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov to reorganize “6+2” group on Afghanistan formed in 1997 (China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, plus the United States and Russia) into “6+3” to include NATO.