17:00, 21 August 2010

Summit of CSTO member-states comes to end in Armenia

During the informal meeting of the heads of the member-states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Yerevan the parties have agreed to hold the next CSTO summit in December this year in Moscow, where the presidency in the organization will pass over to Belarus.

The two-day informal summit of the heads of CSTO member-countries started on August 20. The leaders of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and President of transition period of Kirghizia Rosa Otunbayeva took parting the event. President of Uzbekistan was absent, the ITAR-TASS reports.

"Whatever we say, but one thing is quite clear: with the CSTO in place, a lot of negative tendencies are restrained. Each of those present here may apply it to these or those frozen conflicts or problems, which exist in the region under responsibility of the CSTO. This is a demonstration of its constructive purpose," the RIA "Novosti" quotes Russian President Dmitri Medvedev as saying.

The member-states of the CSTO are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.