December 9, 2006 - 14:15 AMT
CSTO and NATO Cooperation Can Strengthen International Security System
CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) and NATO are not antagonists and they must collaborate. The cooperation can strengthen the International Security System, says CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha . In his opinion, especially it would be important to establish an anti-drug belt around Afghanistan, strengthen the Tajik-Afghan border, and in future - to cooperate in peacekeeping, liquidate the results of emergency states of man-caused and natural character, reports Golos Rossii. CSTO consists of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.