CSTO Foreign Ministers to meet in Moscow March 25

March 22, 2010 - 11:31 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will meet in Moscow on March 25. The Ministers will discuss the Organization's activities and coordinate foreign policy issues. They will also refer to initiatives Kazakhstan exercises as a country chairing the OSCE and implementation of joint projects.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization is a security grouping comprising the former Soviet republics of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. On February 4, 2009, the leaders of all CSTO member states signed an agreement on formation of a rapid-reaction force.

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The Collective Security Treaty Organization, formed under the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States, serves as a mutual defense alliance among Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The Collective Security Treaty (CST) was signed on May 15, 1992 for five-year term, with the possibility of prolongation. On December 2, 2004 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Resolution to grant the observer status to the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the General Assembly of the United Nations. The goal of the Collective Security Treaty Organization is to strengthen peace and international and regional security and stability and to ensure collective protection of independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Member States, in the attainment of which Member States shall give priority to political methods. On February 4, 2009, the CSTO leaders approved formation of Collective Rapid Reaction Force (RRF).