Armenian president welcomes CIS security body’ cooperation with NATO

Armenian president welcomes CIS security body’ cooperation with NATO

Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency, Almaty
18 Jun 04

Astana, 18 June: The member states of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO) [Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Russia] may actively cooperate with NATO in a bilateral
and multilateral format, Armenian President Robert Kocharyan believes.

“The organization reacts to this calmly and positively assesses
the possibility for cooperation between the states (of CSTO –
Interfax-Kazakhstan) and NATO, as well as in the NATO-CSTO format,”
Kocharyan said, answering questions from journalists at a news
conference in Astana today, which was given jointly by the leaders
of all the CSTO member states.

Kocharyan also noted that on the same day the CSTO member states
signed a basic document regulating partnership with NATO on a wide
range of issues, specifically, on the fight against terrorism, drug
trafficking and WMD proliferation.

Kocharyan stressed that the document provided for specific mechanisms
for cooperation.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress