  CSTO peacekeeping forces to participate in UN missions August 23, 2016 - 18:13 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Peacekeepers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will be involved in themissions of the United Nations Organization, BelTa reports. CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov made the statement during the opening ceremony of the CSTO collective peacekeeping forces exercise Unbreakable Brotherhood 2016 on Tuesday, August 23. The Deputy Secretary General said: “For the first time ever the CSTO collective peacekeeping forces will get a mandate of the UN Security Council and will operate in a crisis area together with the UN mission.” According to him, work is now underway to set up CSTO units to take care of various tasks. “A peacekeeping police unit is being set up within the Collective Security Treaty Organization. It will always stand by to carry out missions in accordance with UN standards,” said Semerikov. The Unbreakable Brotherhood 2016 exercise together with the CSTO collective peacekeeping forces began in the combined arms exercise area Obuz-Lesnovsky in Brest Oblast on Tuesday. Belarusian Deputy Defense Minister, Major-General Sergei Potapenko supervises the drill. As part of the exercise the CSTO collective peacekeeping forces will respond to a mass arrival of refugees from conflict zones. Buffer zones will be created, hypothetical aggressors will be separated, militants will be blocked and disarmed, and humanitarian cargoes will be escorted. The exercise will test the real readiness of staffs, commanders and rank and file personnel of the peacekeeping forces to act in an aggravated crisis situation, said the Belarusian Deputy Defense Minister. The Unbreakable Brotherhood 2016 exercise is scheduled to run through August 27. National contingents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan are taking part in the exercise. Up to 1,500 personnel representing the armies, interior troops and police of all the six CSTO member states as well as about 30 aircraft, armored vehicles and automobiles will involved in the drill overall.   Top stories Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says.   Partner news |  Latest news Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates  Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements.Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of ArmeniaHenrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan.Armenia not going to war over Karabakh, says Pashinyan Armenia is not preparing to fight a war for Nagorno Karabakh, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview. |
