CSTO SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS IN CASE OF AGGRESSION TOWARDS ARMENIA ORGANIZATION WILL HELP ITS PARTNER
The Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) are missioned at localizing military and border conflicts, averting acts of terrorism and distribution of drugs. And in case of applying aggression or territorial integrity infringements towards the CSTO member countries military activities will be started, Nikolai Bordyuzha, the secretary general of the CSTO told to Russian Kommersant.
To the question what type of conflicts are under the forces’ authorization, the secretary general said that it depends on the scope of conflict. “The Collective Rapid Reaction Forces are to solve not so big military clashes. If we speak about serious territorial integrities to be under threat, then we have Russian-Armenian and Russian- Byelorussian groups,” the secretary-general said.
The secretary-general talked about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict also. To the reporter’s question if military activities start to reach the resolution of the NKR conflict, the CRRF would be sent to help Armenia, which is a CSTO country, Mr. Bordyuzha answered that military activities would not be used as the conflict of South Ossetia proved that such problems should not be solved out through weapons.
The reporter anyway tries to paraphrase the question, asking if A country, which is CSTO member, and B country, which is not CSTO member, start military oriented conflict, whether CRRF would be engaged to help the CSTO member. “If such conflict is raised then not only CRRF but the CSTO will be engaged to help its member country,” Bordyuzha said.