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14 June 2005 - 04:33 AMT

CSTO SEC. GEN. ARRIVED IN ARMENIA

June 14 the working visit of Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolay Bordyuzha to Armenia commenced. Mr. Bordyuzha will inform Armenian President Robert Kocharian on the questions being submitted to the session of the Collective Security Council and the state of affairs in the Organization. In Yerevan the CSTO Sec. Gen. is also scheduled to meet with senior military and political leaders of Armenia – the President and the Secretary of the National Security Council at the Armenian President, Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan. “The aim of the trip is to report to the Armenian leadership the state of affairs in the Organization, the problems the CSTO has faced and the supposed ways of their solution,” N. Bordyuzha stated before leaving for Yerevan. “A large number of initiatives being implemented within the CSTO framework issue exactly from Armenia,” Nikolay Bordyuzha stated. Within arrangement of the session of the CSTO supreme body – the Collective Security Council, the Organization Sec. Gen. has already met with Presidents of Russia, Belarus and acting President of Kyrgyzstan, reported Regnum news agency.