President.am, Armenia
April 19 2009

President Serzh Sargsyan received Foreign Ministers of the CSTO member
states

Today, President Serzh Sargsyan received participants to the meeting
of the Council of the Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization member states and the Secretary General of the
CSTO, Nikolay Bordjuzha.

The President of Armenia expressed confidence that the Yerevan session
would contribute to the strengthening of the Organization and higher
efficiency of cooperation of its member states. He also said that
recently held numerous events made the CSTO more dynamic.

Presenting the agenda of the session, Secretary General N. Bordjuzha
noted that the discussions were conducted in the atmosphere of
understanding and mainly related to the pressing issues of
international security, coordination of the member-states’ foreign
policy and principle directions of the Organization’s cooperation with
international and regional structures. The package of prepared
documents will be presented to the Heads of state for approval at the
June summit of the CSTO.

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO highly praised Armenia’s
efficient work during her presidency in the Organization.

The President of Armenia noted with satisfaction that works conducted
for the coordination of foreign policy in the framework of the CSTO
have already yielded positive results.