PanARMENIAN.Net
CSTO Defense Ministers stand against U.S. anti-missile defense shield
in Europe
28.09.2007 16:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) was held in Bishkek
September 28. `CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha and Russian
Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov as well as Defense Ministers of
Kirghizia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Belarus and Armenia attended the
meeting. The participants discussed the U.S. plans to mount
anti-missile assets in Eastern Europe,’ reads a statement issued by
United Russia party.
`Deployment of any forces represents a menace. Violation of balance
of forces in the region can have unforeseeable consequences. The
states where the assets are mounted will assume the greatest
risk. That is why decisions should be taken in compliance with the
international agreements and opinion of neighbor states, including the
CSTO,’ said Leonid Maltsev, the Belarusian Minister of Defense.
Upon completion of the meeting CSTO Sec. Gen. handed jubilee orders
`CSTO is 15 years old’ to the Defense Ministers.