Armenia will preside in the Collective Security Treaty Organization from late spring 2008, Kirghizian President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said at CSTO session in Dushanbe after assuming presidency from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the CSTO press office reported.

The Collective Security Treaty was signed on 15 May 1992 by Armenia, Russia, Belarus, Kirghizia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.