ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ALONG WITH CSTO COUNTERPARTS TO DISCUSS INTERACTION WITH NATO

Today the sitting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) opens in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, in which minister for foreign affairs of Armenia Vardan Oskanian participates. The forum participants intend to discuss issues of interaction of the CSTO with the NATO, as well as the course of the fulfillment of resolutions and promotion of the organization activities in a number of aspects. The ministers will also visit the Russian airbase in Kant town, which is the aircraft component of the CSTO Collective Rapid Deployment Forces, “Novosti” Russian agency reported. Along with the heads of the foreign departments, chairman of the CIS Executive Committee Yuri Yarov, secretary general of EurAsEC Grigory Rapota, head of the Council of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly Mikhail Krotov are expected to participate in the sitting. It should be reminded that the CSTO comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.