CSTO SECURITY COUNCILS CHIEFS TO DISCUSS NCAUCASUS SITUATION
ITAR-TASS
Aug 31 2008
Russia
MOSCOW, September 3 (Itar-Tass) – The Secretaries of the Security
Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO)
member-countries meet in Yerevan on Wednesday to discuss the situation
in the North Caucasus area following Georgia’s aggression against
South Ossetia.
An official in the press service of the CSTO Secretariat has told
Itar-Tass that participants in the meeting are to discuss tendencies
in the development of the military-and-political situation within the
CSTO zone of responsibility and adjacent areas as well as measures
to neutralise arising challenges and threats to collective security.
Those present at the meeting are also to consider a draft agreement on
the training of personnel for law enforcement, firefighting, emergency
rescue agencies and specials services of the CSTO member-countries.
The chiefs of the CSTO security councils are to examine drafts of a
decision of the CSTO Collective Security Council about stepping up
activities against the trafficking of narcotics, a programme for the
formation of an information security system, a plan for collective
actions aimed at implementing the 2008-2012 UN Global Counterterrorist
Strategy.