Uzbekistan has officially suspended its membership with the Collective Security Treaty Organizationamid Belarus President Lukashenko’s warnings it will see no re-entry waivers.

“We have granted their [Uzbekistan's] request and suspended their CSTO membership,” Alexander Lukashenko said at the Moscow summit today.

Mr. Lukashenko cautioned Tashkent it would get no more re-admission waivers, should it try to make a comeback. He added the same was true of any other nation that might seek to join the Collective Security Organization, Russian media reported.

The CSTO was established in 1992 to ensure territorial and economic security of its member states, which now include Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. Besides Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Georgia also withdrew from the alliance.